Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shapleigh, Frank Henry | 
Frank H.
Shapleigh was born in Boston and studied painting at the Lowell Institute of
Drawing. In 1867-1868, he sailed to
Europe where he studied in the studio of Emile Lambinet (1815-1877).
Shapleigh painted
throughout New England, in St. Augustine, Florida, California, and in
Europe. For sixteen years, from
1877 to 1893, he was... | 1842 - 1906 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Stanwood, Franklin |
Franklin
Stanwood was born in the Portland Alms House and shortly thereafter was adopted
by Captain Gideon Stanwood.
He was
self-taught and developed a very linear style, which accorded well with the ship
portraits for which he is best known.
He also painted "house portraits" and landscapes. He was a sailor by profession and
perhaps went to... | 1852 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Smillie, George Henry |
George
Henry Smillie (1840 - 1921), brother of artist James David Smillie, was a
painter.
He studied
under his father, James Smillie, and under James McDougal Hart, and became a member
of the National Academy of Design in 1882. Like his brother, he painted both in
oils and in water colour.
His
favourite subjects were scenes along the New England... | 1840 - 1921 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Suydam, James Augustus |
The work of
James Augustus Suydam, characterized by idealized
tranquil landscapes and seascapes illuminated by softly sunlit skies, is emblematic of the American Luminist
movement of the nineteenth century.
Biography
James
Augustus Suydam was born on March 27, 1819 in New
York City. Suydam’s family was of Dutch
decedent, tracing their ancestry... | 1819 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/24/2012 |
| Smillie, James David |
James David Smillie (January 16, 1833 - September 14, 1909), American artist, was born in New York City.
His father, James Smillie (1807-1885), a Scottish engraver, emigrated to New York in 1829, was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1851, did much, with his brother William C. (1813-1908), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an... | 1833 - 1909 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Scott, John White Allen |
John White
Allen Scott (1815-1907) or John W.A. Scott was an artist in Boston,
Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1][2] He worked for Pendleton's Lithography
early in his career. In the 1840s he started a lithography business in
partnership with Fitz Hugh Lane ("Lane & Scott's
Lithography").[3][4] Around 1852 he kept a studio in Boston's... | 1815 - 1907 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
| Sonntag, William Louis |
William Sonntag was one of the central figures of the Hudson River School. Primarily self-taught, his early landscapes were executed during painting excursions from Cincinnati to the Ohio River Valley and in Kentucky and West Virginia (1856 and 1859).
Born in East Liberty, Pennsylvania March 2, 1822, it is believed Sonntag studied for a short period... | 1822 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/24/2012 |
| Stanley, Abram Ross |
Although
the details of Abram Ross Stanley's life are not certain, he was probably born
March 16, 1816, in Salisbury, Herkimer County, New York, to Jedediah
and Prudence Stanley, who had moved there six years earlier from New Hampshire.
Based on his middle name, the artist is sometimes identified as a descendant of
Betsy Ross, but there is no... | 1816 - 1875 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
| Smith, Allen |
Allen
Smith, Jr., met with considerable success in the Midwest as a portraitist. He
studied briefly with William D. Parisen (1800-1832) while attending the antique
classes at the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York. Smith also attended
the antique class of the National Academy of Design, where he won a prize in
1833. He exhibited at the... | 1810 - 1890 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Smith, Dana |
Very little
is known about Dana Smith, the supposed painter of the National Gallery's
painting Southern Resort Town (1971.83.11) and New Hampshire Panorama (also a Garbisch gift, to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
According to the Garbisch records, he was born in New
Hampshire in 1805, lived in Franklin where he painted local scenes and died... | 1805 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
