Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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| 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 |
| Tarbell, Edmund Charles |
Edmund
Charles Tarbell (April 26, 1862 – August 1, 1938) was an American
Impressionist painter. He was a member of the Ten American Painters. His work
is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery and the
National Academy of Design, among others.
Early life and education
Edmund
Charles Tarbell, called "Ned" as a boy, was... | 1862 - 1938 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Pennington, Harper |
Harper
Pennington was born in Baltimore to a prominent Maryland family. After studying
drawing at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris with the
renowned teacher and artist Jean Leon Gérome,
in 1880 he traveled to Munich, where the American artist Frank Duveneck's school was well known. Pennington was advised to
join Duveneck's winter art class in... | 1853 - 1920 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Lanman, Charles |
Charles
Lanman was an author, government official, artist, librarian, and explorer.
Early life and education
Charles
Lanman was born at Monroe, Michigan, on June 14, 1819, the son of Charles James
Lanman, and the grandson of United States Senator James Lanman.[1] Lanman's
early life included newspaper work as editor of the Monroe Gazette in... | 1819 - 1895 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Robinson, Theodore |
Theodore
Robinson (July 3, 1852 – April 2, 1896) was an American painter best
known for his impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American
artists to take up impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting Giverny and developing a close friendship with Claude
Monet. Several of his works are considered masterpieces of... | 1852 - 1896 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Ryder, Albert Pinkham |
Albert
Pinkham Ryder (March 19, 1847 – March 28, 1917) was an American painter
best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes, as well as
his eccentric personality. While his art shared an emphasis on subtle
variations of color with tonalist works of the time, it was unique for
accentuating form in a way that some art... | 1847 - 1917 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Wiles, Irving R. |
Born in Utica, New York, in 1861 the portraitist Irving Ramsey Wiles first studied art with his father, landscape painter Lemuel Maynard Wiles (1826-1905). In 1879 he followed his father's advice and moved to New York. He entered the Art Students League, where he spent two years studying with Thomas W. Dewing, J. Carroll Beckwith, and William Merritt... | 1861 - 1948 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Waldo, Samuel Lovett |
The
portraitist Samuel Lovett Waldo was born April 6, 1783, in Windham,
Connecticut, one of eight children born to farmer Zacheus
Waldo and his wife Esther Stevens Waldo. At the age of sixteen he went to
Hartford and took drawing lessons from an obscure painter named Joseph Steward.
He set up a studio there in 1803, but found few clients and... | 1783 - 1861 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Twachtman, John Henry |
John Henry Twachtman (August 4, 1853 – August 8, 1902) was an
American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes, though his
painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twachtman's style of American Impressionism to be among the
more personal and experimental of his generation. He was a member of "The
Ten",... | 1853 - 1902 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Weir, Julian Alden |
Julian
Alden Weir (August 30, 1852 – December 8, 1919) was an American
impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony near Greenwich,
Connecticut. Weir was also one of "The Ten", a loosely-allied group
of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who
banded together in 1898 to exhibit their works as a... | 1852 - 1919 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
