Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Read, James B. | 1803 - 1870 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
Peale, Raphaelle |
Raphaelle
Peale (sometimes spelled Raphael Peale) (February 17, 1774 – March 4,
1825) is considered the first professional American painter of still-life.
Biography
Peale was
born in Annapolis, Maryland, the fifth child, though eldest surviving, of the
painter Charles Willson Peale and his first wife
Rachel Brewer. He grew up in Philadelphia,... | 1774 - 1825 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
Sharp, Joseph H. | 1859 - 1953 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
Newman, Henry Roderick |
Henry Roderick Newman (b Easton, New York 1833; d Florence, Italy 1918) was an American painter.
A self-taught artist, Henry Roderick Newman was influenced by John Ruskin’s landscape and nature scenes. In 1872, Newman moved to Florence, Italy to study painting and was inspired by the architecture he found there as well as the masterpieces by... | 1843 - 1917 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
Van Elten, Hendrik D. K. | 1829 - 1904 | Anonymous | 12/24/2012 | |
Mead, F. A. | Active ca. 1870 | Anonymous | 12/24/2012 | |
Juergens, Alfred | 1866 - 1934 | Anonymous | 12/24/2012 | |
Whistler, James McNeill |
James
Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834 — July 17, 1903) was an
American-born, British-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral
allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for
art's sake". His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a
stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail.[1]... | 1834 - 1903 | Anonymous | 12/24/2012 |
Lillie, John | 1867 - 1944 | Anonymous | 12/24/2012 | |
Wiggins, John Carleton | John Carleton Wiggins (more commonly known as just Carleton Wiggins) was born to Guy and Adelaide Ludlum Wiggins on March 4, 1848, in Turners (now Harriman), N. Y., west of the Hudson River. Wiggins received his early education in Middletown N.Y., and later attended public schools in Brooklyn. As a youth, he took a job at an insurance company on Wall... | 1848 - 1932 | Anonymous | 12/24/2012 |