Artists
Name | Info | Years
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Binsse, Louis Francis DePaul | 1774 - 1844 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 | |
Jennys, William | ![]()
William Jennys (1774–1859), also known as J. William Jennys, was an American primitive portrait painter who was
active from about 1790 to 1810. He traveled throughout New England seeking
commissions in rural areas and small towns.
His early
works are characterized by broadly modeled faces with a minimum of costume
detail and bare backgrounds.... | 1774 - 1858 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
Robinson, John | 1774 - ca. 1829 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Winstanley, William | ![]()
William Winstanley was an early American painter born in England
and transferred to the United States as a young man. He is credited as one of
the very first American landscape painters and was active in the late 18th and
early 19th centuries.
Winstanley
has been criticized by some art historians for his “sterile
recipes” for creating... | 1775 - 1806 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
Paul, Jeremiah | ![]()
Jeremiah
Paul ( fl 1795; d nr St Louis, MO, 13 July 1820). American painter. He was a minor yet versatile artist whose
career began in Philadelphia, PA, in the 1790s. The son of a Quaker
schoolmaster, Paul received his early training from Charles Willson
Peale and in 1795 participated in the founding of the Columbianum,
Peale's ill-fated attempt to... | 1775 - 1820 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
Salmon, Robert | ![]()
Robert
Salmon was born in Whitehaven, a port situated on the northwest coast of
England. Although his artistic beginnings are unknown, his career can be
divided into two periods. Between 1800 and 1828 he lived in England and
Scotland, and his work faithfully recorded the environs of Liverpool and
Greenock. Salmon's style at this time reflected the... | 1775 - 1845 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Tanner, Benjamin | 1775 - 1848 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
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 |
Vanderlyn, John | ![]()
John
Vanderlyn (October 18, 1775 – September 23, 1852) was an American
neoclassicist painter.
Biography
Vanderlyn
was born at Kingston, New York. He was employed by a print-seller in New York,
and was first instructed in art by Archibald Robinson (1765–1835), a
Scotsman who was afterwards one of the directors of the American Academy of... | 1775 - 1852 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
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 |