Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Picknell, William Lamb | 
Landscape
painter William Lamb Picknell is especially famed for
the quality of light in his plein-air painting, which
was often glaringly intense, clear, and crisp. His inborn worship of nature was
amply nourished by several American masters including esteemed Hudson River
School and Tonalist painter George Inness, painter
Robert Wylie, and... | 1853 - 1897 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |
| Magrath, William |
Irish-American
watercolour painter, apparently named in the Chief
Constable's Special Branch Register:[1]
·
"McGrath,
William - suspicious Irishman at 57 Bedford Gardens"
·
"McGrath,
William - said to be connected to Whitechapel
murders".
Biography
William Magrath was born on 20 March 1838 at... | 1838 - 1913 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 |
| Fisher, William Mark |
William
Mark Fisher was born in Boston, MA in 1841. His family was poor and he spent a good
part of his childhood working. At
the age of 14 he was apprenticed to his cousin – a sign and house painter
– William Lawless. From this
point on he began to study art – initially taking drawing classes (during
the winter months) at the Lowell... | 1841 - 1923 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Doyle, William M. S. | William M.S. Doyle was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1769. His father was a British soldier, but Doyle seems to have lived and worked his entire life in Boston. Doyle was a silhouettist, artist of portraits of both full-size and miniature. He worked in silhouette cutting, watercolor, oil and pastel. His silhouettes were beautifully rendered in... | 1769 - 1828 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 |
| Stone, William Oliver |
William
Oliver Stone (September 26, 1830 – September 15, 1875) was an American
portrait painter.
Stone was
born in Derby, Connecticut. In the late 1840s he studied under Nathaniel
Jocelyn in New Haven, and then moved to New York in 1851. He became fairly
prominent there, and was elected an associate member of the National Academy in
1856, with... | 1830 - 1875 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
| Babcock, William P. | 1826 - 1899 | Anonymous | 04/15/2012 | |
| Chappel, William P. | Active ca. 1869 - 1870 | Anonymous | 06/02/2012 | |
| Sheys, William P. | Died 1821 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| Shirlaw, Walter |
Walter
Shirlaw (August 6, 1838 – December 30, 1909) was a Scottish-American
artist.
Shirlaw was
born in Paisley, Scotland, and moved to the United States with his parents in
1840. He worked as a bank-note engraver, and his work was first exhibited at
the National Academy in 1861.
He was
elected an academician of the Chicago Academy of Design in... | 1838 - 1909 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Parrott, William Samuel |
Born in
Missouri in 1843, William Samuel Parrott came west with his family to Oregon in
1847, and moved with them to Washington in 1859. By 1867 he had established
himself as a painter in Portland, where he would maintain a studio for twenty
years
Parrott
painted throughout the West from California to Idaho, but is best known for his
paintings of... | 1844 - 1915 | Anonymous | 04/15/2012 |
