Artists

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Zeliff, Amzi Emmonsnotes
Amzi Emmons Zeliff was born 11 April 1831, in Morris County, New Jersey, son of Daniel P. and Maria Van Houton Zeliff and a descendant of early Dutch settlers of Staten Island and New Jersey. He later may have moved to Essex County for a period, perhaps upon his marriage to Cornelia Harris. Family members say that at one time he owned the White Horse...
1831 - 1915Anonymous05/02/2012
Woodbury, Charles Herbertnotes
Charles Herbert Woodbury (July 14, 1864—January 21, 1940), United States marine painter, was born at Lynn, Massachusetts. Biography Charles H. Woodbury was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, where his earliest work was part of the oeuvre of the group later known as the Lynn Beach Painters. While an undergraduate at MIT he became a regular exhibitor...
1864 - 1940Alexander Lusher05/15/2012
The Gansevoort Limnernotes
The designation "Gansevoort Limner" was given to the unkown painter of a stylistically coherent group of portraits depicting members of the Gansevoort family. The majority of his sitters were children, and several of his portraits are inscribed in either Dutch or Latin. Mary Black has identified The Gansevoort Limner as Pieter Vanderlyn, which some...
Born 1730Anonymous04/12/2012
Woodward, John Douglasnotes
John Douglas Woodward (12 July 1846 – 1924) was an American landscape artist and illustrator described by Joseph Pennell as one of the country's "best-known painters and illustrators". He produced hundreds of scenes of Europe, the Holy Land, and the United States, many of which were reproduced in popular magazines of the day.[1] Life and...
1846 - 1924Alexander Lusher05/15/2012
Wollaston, Johnnotes
John Wollaston (active between 1742 and 1775) was an English painter of portraits who was active in the British colonies in North America for much of his career. He was one of a handful of painters to introduce the English Rococo style to the American colonies.[1] Biography Little is known of Wollaston's early life. He is believed to have been...
1710 - 1775Anonymous04/10/2012
The Pollard Limnernotes
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 1690Anonymous04/05/2012
Woodville, Richard Catonnotes
Richard Caton Woodville (30 April 1825 – 13 August 1855) was an American artist from Baltimore who spent his professional career in Europe, after studying in Düsseldorf under the direction of Carl Ferdinand Sohn. He died of an overdose of morphine in London at the age of 30.[1] He was the father of Richard Caton Woodville, Jr., also a noted...
1825 - 1855Alexander Lusher05/15/2012
The Schuyler Limnernotes
The designation "Schuyler Limner" or "Schuyler Painter" can be applied to the anonymous maker, active circa 1717 to circa 1725, of some two dozen early eighteenth-century portraits of subjects from the Albany, New York, area. The name is derived from what appears to be the earliest and most ambitious effort by the artist, the full-length portrait...
Born 1717Anonymous05/19/2012
Wores, Theodorenotes
Theodore Wores (August 1, 1859–September 11, 1939) was an American painter born in San Francisco, son of Joseph Wores and Gertrude Liebke. His father worked as a hat manufacturer in San Francisco. Wores began his art training at age twelve in the studio of Joseph Harrington, who taught him color, composition, drawing and perspective. When the San...
1859 - 1939Anonymous04/11/2012
Wood, Thomas Watermannotes
Thomas Waterman Wood (November 12, 1823 – April 14, 1903) was an American painter born in Montpelier, Vermont. Origins Thomas Waterman Wood's father, John Wood, came to Montpelier from Lebanon, New Hampshire in 1814. The Wood family was of Puritan stock, and it was from Lebanon that John Wood, the father of the artist, married his wife Mary...
1823 - 1903Alexander Lusher05/15/2012
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