Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weinedel, Carl | 1795 - 1845 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Bridport, Hugh | 
Hugh Bridport, born in England in 1794, was a portrait painter,
drawing instructor, architect, and engraver, who practiced lithography in
Philadelphia 1828-1830s. Trained at the Royal Academy and with miniature
painter Charles Wilkins, Bridport immigrated to Philadelphia with his artist
brother George in 1816. Soon after their arrival, the brothers... | 1794 - ca. 1869 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Leslie, Charles Robert |
Charles
Robert Leslie (19 October 1794 – 5 May 1859), was an English genre
painter. Born in London, his parents were American, and when he was five years
of age he returned with them to their native country. They settled in
Philadelphia, where their son was educated and afterwards apprenticed to a
bookseller. He was, however, mainly interested in... | 1794 - 1859 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Cooke, George |
George
Cooke (1793–1849) was an itinerant United States painter who specialized
in portrait and landscape paintings and was one of the South's best known
painters of the mid nineteenth century.[1] His primary
patron was the industrialist Daniel Pratt, who built a gallery in Prattville,
Alabama solely to house Cooke's paintings.[1]
Early career... | 1793 - 1849 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Havell, Robert |
Robert Havell, Jr. (Nov. 25, 1793 - Nov. 11, 1878) was the
principal engraver of Audubon's Birds of America, perhaps the most significant
natural history publication of all time. His aquatint engraving of all but the
first ten plates of John James Audubon's Birds of America is now recognized as
a significant artistic achievement in its own right... | 1793 - 1878 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| Doughty, Thomas |
Thomas Doughty was born in Philadelphia on July 19, 1793, and lived there until 1828. Although little is known about his formal education, he apparently showed a strong talent for drawing from an early age. When he was fifteen or sixteen Doughty was apprenticed to a leather worker, and by 1814 he was listed in the Philadelphia directory as a... | 1793 - 1856 | Anonymous | 02/12/2012 |
| Kidder, James | 1793 - 1837 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
| Yeager, Joseph | 1792 - 1859 | Anonymous | 07/28/2012 | |
| Jewett, William |
A painter
of portraits, landscapes, and works of genre, or scenes of everyday life,
William Smith Jewett became California’s first resident professional
artist. Jewett was born near South Dover, New York, and he studied at New York
City’s prestigious National Academy of Design. He established a
portrait-painting practice in New York in 1833; in... | 1792 - 1874 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Harding, Chester |
Chester
Harding (September 1, 1792 – April 1, 1866) was an American portrait
painter.
Biography
Harding was
born at Conway, Massachusetts. Brought up in the wilderness of New York state,
he was a lad of robust physique, standing over 6 feet 3 inches. His family
removed to Caledonia, New York, when he was fourteen years old, and he was
early... | 1792 - 1866 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
