Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shute, Ruth Whittier | 
Ruth W.
Shute and her physician husband Dr. Samuel A. Shute were itinerant portrait
painters known for their individual and collaborated watercolor portraits of
individuals living in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and
northern New York State beginning in 1827.
It appears
Samuel became very ill around 1834-35 and was unable to... | 1803 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Read, James B. | 1803 - 1870 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
| Jordan, Samuel |
Only four
signed paintings by Samuel Jordan are known and few biographical facts have
been ascertained. The inscriptions on the verso of the National Gallery's
painting Eaton Family Memorial (1955.11.9) indicate that he was born in 1803 or
1804 and resided in Boston at some time in his life. From a diary kept by Isaac
Watts Merrill (1803-1878), we... | 1803 - 1831 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jacobs, Paul Emil |
Paul Emil
Jacobs (August 20, 1802, in Gotha - January 6, 1866) was a German painter.
Jacobs, son
of the philologist Frederick Jacobs, received his art training at the Munich Academy
of Fine Arts and first became known for his painting of Mercury and Argus (from
Classical mythology). In 1824 he went to Rome, where he attracted great
critical... | 1802 - 1866 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| Linen, George | 1802 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
| Sebron, Hippolyte Victor Valentin | 1801 - 1897 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Wall, William Allen |
William
Allen Wall was born to a prominent Quaker family of New Bedford. His father was
the master of a Quaker school, ran a hardware store, and promoted cultural
activities in the city.
Wall seems
to have inherited from his father an appreciation of art and may have received
instruction from him in watercolor and pencil technique. His father... | 1801 - 1885 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Quidor, John |
The literary genre painter John Quidor was an enigmatic figure whose career is extremely difficult to trace. Born in 1801 in Tappan, New Jersey, he moved to New York City in 1811. He was apprenticed to the portraitist John Wesley Jarvis from 1818 until 1822, when he successfully sued his teacher for not complying with the terms of his contract. Henry... | 1801 - 1881 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
| Smith, Royall Brewster |
Born in
Buxton, Maine, 7 August 1801, the artist was probably named after the Smith
family's physician, Dr. Royal Brewster. As the eleventh of fourteen children of
John McCurdy and Elizabeth McLellan Smith, Royall
successfully survived a childhood of limited financial means and some illness
to become a successful artisan.
Between
1830 and 1837,... | 1801 - 1855 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Cole, Thomas |
Thomas Cole
(February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an English-born American
artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American
art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's Hudson River
School, as well as his own work, was known for its realistic and detailed
portrayal of American landscape and... | 1801 - 1848 | Anonymous | 04/01/2012 |
