Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Zeliff, Amzi Emmons |
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 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/02/2012 |
Woodbury, Charles Herbert |
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 - 1940 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
The Gansevoort Limner |
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 1730 | Anonymous | 04/12/2012 |
Woodward, John Douglas |
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 - 1924 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
Wollaston, John |
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 - 1775 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
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 |
Woodville, Richard Caton |
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 - 1855 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
The Schuyler Limner |
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 1717 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Wores, Theodore |
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 - 1939 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
Wood, Thomas Waterman |
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 - 1903 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |