Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copley, John Singleton | 
John Singleton Copley (1738[1] – 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts, and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects. His paintings were innovative in their tendency to... | 1738 - 1815 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Lang, Louis |
American
painter of historical, literary and portrait subjects, Louis Lang was born in
Wurtemberg, Germany into an artistic family. At the age of 16, he was already
producing accomplished pastels. He began his art studies in Stuttgart and later
worked in Paris before he immigrated to the United States in 1838. He settled
in Philadelphia and from... | 1814 - 1893 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Lawson, Ernest |
Ernest
Lawson (March 22, 1873 – December 18, 1939) was a Canadian-American
painter and a member of The Eight, a group of artists which included the
group's leaders Robert Henri, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, Arthur B. Davies,
Maurice Prendergast, George Luks, and William J. Glackens. Though Lawson mostly
painted landscapes, he also did some... | 1873 - 1939 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| LeClear, Thomas |
Thomas LeClear was born in the village of Candor, near Oswego, in
upstate New York, and demonstrated an early interest in painting. According to
Henry T. Tuckerman's Book of the Artists, first published in 1867, LeClear, at the age of twelve, completed a painting of
Saint Matthew, which was so admired by his neighbors that they were willing to
pay... | 1818 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Leighton, Nicholas Winfield Scott |
Nicholas
Winfield Scott Leighton was a painter whose last known address was Boston,
MA. He was mainly a painter of
animals, and it was only by raising and trading horses that he was able to
pursue his studies. He studied
under Harrison Bird Brown and opened a studio in Boston in 1874.
He
exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1883,... | 1847 - 1898 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb |
Emanuel
Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816, Schwäbisch Gmünd – July 18,
1868) was a German American history painter best known for his painting
Washington Crossing the Delaware.
Biography
Philadelphia
Leutze was
born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg (Germany), and was brought
to America as a child. His parents settled first in Philadelphia,... | 1816 - 1868 | Anonymous | 05/14/2012 |
| Lie, Jonas |
Jonas Lie
(April 29, 1880 - January 18, 1940) was a Norwegian-born American painter. He
is best known for colorful paintings of coastlines of New England and city
scenes New York City. [1]
Background
Jonas Lie
was born in Moss, in Østfold county, Norway. His father Sverre
Lie, was a civil Norwegian engineer and his mother Helen Augusta Steele,... | 1880 - 1940 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
| The Beardsley Limner |
The
Beardsley Limner was an itinerant artist who worked along the old Boston Post
Road, in Connecticut and Massachusetts, from about 1785 to 1805. He executed
some of the most striking naive portraits in New England, and was given the
name The Beardsley Limner based on his handsome paintings of Elizabeth and Hezekiah
Beardsley, c.... | Born 1785 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| The Conant Limner |
Approximately
eleven portraits can be attributed to this unidentified painter. His
identification as The Conant Limner is derived from the last name of four
sitters who constitute the largest family group by his hand. The Conants lived in Sterling, Massachusetts, where several of
this limner's works remain. Although likenesses by this hand have... | Born 1813 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| The Denison Limner |
The
identity of the artist who created the Denison family portraits has long eluded
scholars. His sitters are all from Stonington, Connecticut, and their portraits
are part of the tradition of Connecticut portraiture that flourished from c.
1790/1810.
One of the
first to suggest an identity for The Denison Limner was Ralph Thomas of the New
Haven... | Born 1790 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
