Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hopkins, Milton W. | 
Milton W.
Hopkins, the son of Hezekiah and Eunice Hubbell Hopkins, was born on 1 August
1789 in Harwinton, Connecticut. In 1800 the family moved to Clinton, New York.
In 1807 he returned to Connecticut, soon marrying Abigail Pollard of Guilford,
with whom he had a child. After Abigail's death in 1817, he wed Almira Adkins and moved to Evans Mill,... | 1789 - 1844 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Rowley, Reuben |
Little is
known about the life of Reuben Rowley, an itinerant miniature and portrait
painter. Based upon the identification of the sitters in several portraits
dating from the 1820s, he appears to have worked mainly in central New York
State between circa 1825 and 1836. It has long been assumed that Rowley and an
artist named Reuben Roulery, who is... | Born 1825 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Thompson, Cephas |
Cephas
Thompson (July 1, 1775 – November 6, 1856) was a successful, self-taught,
early nineteenth-century portrait painter in the United States, who was born,
died, and lived most of his life in Middleborough, Massachusetts.
Thompson's
father fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Thompson married Olive Leonard on
March 18, 1802. His son, Cephas... | 1775 - 1856 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Mader, Louis |
Louis Mader was born in Germany in 1842 and came to the United
States in 1867, during a period when the almshouses were filling with recent
immigrants. He was first admitted to the Berks County Almshouse in 1892 and
over the next three years painted at least eight views of that institution.
Unlike Charles Hofmann, the best-known "Pennsylvania... | 1842 - 1899 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Field, Erastus Salisbury |
Erastus
Salisbury Field and his twin sister, Salome, were born in Leverett,
Massachusetts, on 19 May 1805. Erastus Field showed an early talent for
sketching portraits, and in 1824 the aspiring artist traveled to New York City
to study with Samuel F. B. Morse. Field's instruction was cut short by the
death of Morse's wife in 1825, and it is not... | 1805 - 1900 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Prior, William Matthew |
William
Matthew Prior, the second son of Matthew Prior and Sarah Bryant Prior of
Duxbury, Massachusetts, was born in Bath, Maine, in 1806. His earliest portrait
is inscribed in the artist's hand, W. M. Prior's first portrait 1823. An
inscription on an 1824 portrait (privately owned in 1992), W. M. Prior, Painter
/ Formerly of Bath / 1824 / 3 piece... | 1806 - 1873 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Smith, John Rubens |
John Rubens
Smith (January 23, 1775 London - August 21, 1849 New York City) was a
London-born painter, printmaker and art instructor who worked in the United
States.
Biography
Smith was
born in England where he first studied art with his father, John Raphael Smith,
a mezzotint engraver. He later studied art at the Royal Academy.
Smith
emigrated... | 1775 - 1849 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Earl, Ralph |
Ralph Earl
(May 11, 1751 – August 16, 1801) was an American painter known for his
portraits, of which at least 183 can be documented. He also painted six
landscapes, including a panorama display of Niagara Falls.
Life and work
Ralph Earl was
born in either Shrewsbury or Leicester, Massachusetts. By 1774, he was working
in New Haven, Connecticut... | 1751 - 1801 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Johnston, Henrietta |
Henrietta
de Beaulieu Dering Johnston (ca. 1674[1] – March 9, 1729) was a pastelist
of uncertain origin active in the English colonies in North America from
approximately 1708 until her death. She is both the earliest recorded female
artist and the first known pastelist working in the English colonies.[2]
Life
Both the
date and place of... | ca. 1674 - 1729 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Waugh, Frederick Judd |
Frederick
Judd Waugh (September 13, 1861 – September 10, 1940) was an American
artist, primarily known as a marine artist. During World War I, he designed
ship camouflage for the U.S. Navy, under the direction of Everett L. Warner.
Background
Born in
Bordentown, New Jersey, Waugh was the son of a well-known Philadelphia portrait
painter, Samuel... | 1861 - 1940 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
