Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smibert, John | 
John
Smybert (or Smibert) (1688–1751), Scottish American artist, was born in
Edinburgh and died in Boston, Massachusetts.
Smibert began
drawing while apprenticed as a painter and plasterer, on moving to London he
worked as a painter of coach carriages and a copyist. He studied under Sir
James Thornhill at his academy, then travelled to Edinburgh... | 1688 - 1751 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| James, Frederick |
Frederick
E. James (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1845 – Percé,
Quebec, 17 July 1907) was an American artist. He was noted for his depictions
of 18th-century American life.
James
trained first at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later under the
famed French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Portraits
by him of Benjamin Franklin, Stephen... | 1845 - 1907 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| Wores, Theodore |
Theodore Wores (August 1, 1859–September 11, 1939) was an
American painter born in San Francisco, son of Joseph Wores
and Gertrude Liebke. His father worked as a hat
manufacturer in San Francisco. Wores began his art
training at age twelve in the studio of Joseph Harrington, who taught him
color, composition, drawing and perspective. When the San... | 1859 - 1939 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| Bristol, John Bunyan |
John Bunyan
Bristol was born in Hillsdale, New York, a small town east of Hudson, New York
near the Massachusetts border. Although largely self-taught, Bristol is known
to have studied briefly with early Hudson River painter Henry Ary, who is also thought to have given instruction to
Bristol’s great contemporary, Sanford Robinson Gifford.... | 1826 - 1909 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| Boutelle, DeWitt Clinton |
DeWitt
Clinton Boutelle was born on April 6, 1820 in Troy,
New York. He was a self-educated artist but began painting “under the
influence of Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand at an early age.”(1) Both
men who influenced him were well known Hudson River School members. Boutelle
created a mix of portrait and landscape paintings during his career.... | 1820 - 1884 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| Silva, Francis A. |
Francis
Augustus Silva painted coastal, beach, and river scenes that represent the
culmination of the landscape mode, dubbed “luminism”
by modern scholars, characterized by broad, horizontal compositions with low
horizons, delicate color, and crystalline light. Silva was a native of New York
City and the son of a barber. Apprenticed to a sign... | 1835 - 1886 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
| Moise, Theodore Sidney |
MOÏSE, THEODORE SYDNEY (1808–1883), U.S. painter; grandson of
Abraham *Moïse. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he
received instruction in painting from his aunt, Penina
*Moïse, a part-time artist. Nothing is known
about his further education. In 1835, Moïse
opened a studio in Charleston, advertising his services as a portrait... | 1808 - 1885 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
| Tanner, Benjamin | 1775 - 1848 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
| Hart, George Overbury | 1868 - 1933 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
| Dvorak, Franz | 1862 - 1927 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
