Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tojetti, Eduardo | 1851 - 1930 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 | |
| Decker, Joseph | 
Although Joseph Decker never achieved an important artistic reputation during his lifetime, his varied career encompassed more than thirty productive years. Born to a carpenter and his wife in 1853 in Wurtemberg, Germany, Decker emigrated with his family to America at the age of fourteen. He was first apprenticed to a Brooklyn house painter, then... | 1853 - 1924 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 |
| Johnston, John |
John
Johnston was born in Boston c. 1753, the son of engraver and decorative painter
Thomas Johnston (c. 1708-1767). Of four brothers who became painters, John
Johnston was the most talented. He was apprenticed after his father's death to
coach and heraldic painter John Gore. In 1773 he joined his brother-in-law
Daniel Rea, Jr. in the painting firm... | 1753 - 1818 | Anonymous | 04/06/2012 |
| Bromley, Valentine Walter |
BROMLEY,
VALENTINE WALTER (1848-1877), painter, great-grandson of William Bromley
(1769-1842) [q. v.], was born in London on 14 Feb. 1848. From his childhood he
manifested a remarkable faculty for art, both as an original designer and as a
depicter of nature. He was especially remarkable for invention and swiftness of
execution. He contributed... | 1848 - 1877 | Anonymous | 04/06/2012 |
| Moran, Thomas |
Thomas
Moran (February 12, 1837 - August 25, 1926) from Bolton, England was an
American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose
work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family took residence in
New York where he obtained work as an artist. A talented illustrator and
exquisite colorist, Moran was hired as an... | 1837 - 1926 | Anonymous | 04/06/2012 |
| Hesselius, John |
John
Hesselius (1728–1778) was a portraitist who worked mostly in Virginia and
Maryland. He was the son of the Swedish-born portraitist Gustavus Hesselius.
Background
John
Hesselius was most likely born in Philadelphia, where his father owned a house
to satisfy clients. Claims that he was born in Prince Georges County, Maryland
are unfounded,... | 1728 - 1778 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |
| Birch, Thomas |
Thomas
Birch, American portrait and marine painter; born in London, England, in 1779;
died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1851.
He came to
the U. S. in 1794, and assisted his artist father, William Birch, in preparing
a 29-plate collection of engravings: "Birch's Views of Philadelphia"
(1799).[1] Subscribers to the series... | 1779 - 1851 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |
| Ives, Lewis Thomas | 1833 - 1894 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 | |
| Tanner, J.G. |
J. G.
Tanner is identified by the inscription on the National Gallery's painting
Engagement Between the "Monitor" and "Merrimac"
(1953.5.36). No biographical information or additional works by J. G. Tanner
have been found, but it is known that the painting is based on a color
lithograph issued in 1891. Tanner was active, therefore, in that year or... | Born 1891 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |
| The Pollard Limner |
The Pollard
Limner, identified on the basis of his portrait of Ann Pollard, 1721, was
active in the Boston area from around the last decade of the seventeenth
century through the first third of the eighteenth century. So far some twenty
paintings by this hand have been identified.
Stylistically,
all of The Pollard Limner's portraits are related by... | Born 1690 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |
