Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perry, Lilla Cabot | 
Lilla
Cabot Perry (January 13, 1848—February 28, 1933) was an American artist
who worked in the Impressionist style, rendering portraits and landscapes in
the free form manner of her mentor, Claude Monet. Perry was an early advocate
of the French Impressionist style and contributed to its reception in the
United States. Perry's early work was... | 1848 - 1933 | Anonymous | 12/21/2012 |
| Peale, Margaretta Angelica |
Margaretta
Angelica Peale (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1795 - died there,
January 17, 1882) was an American painter, one of the Peale family
of artists. The daughter of James Peale, she was the sister of Sarah Miriam
Peale, Anna Claypoole Peale, and Maria Peale. She was
taught by her father, and painted primarily still-lifes,
many... | 1795 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/10/2012 |
| Peale, Mary |
Mary Jane
Peale (born New York City, February 16, 1827 - died Pottsville, Pennsylvania,
November, 1902) was an American painter. She was the child of Rubens and Eliza
Burd Patterson Peale, the only daughter among seven children, and was the
granddaughter of Charles Willson Peale. She was among the last members of the
Peale family to paint... | 1827 - 1902 | Anonymous | 03/21/2012 |
| Pratt, Matthew |
Matthew
Pratt was born in Philadelphia in 1734. He served an apprenticeship with his
uncle James Claypoole, a limner and painter, from
1749 to 1755. Pratt opened a similar business which he interrupted with a brief
speculative trading voyage to Jamaica. When he returned to Philadelphia he
began to paint portraits, at which he proved very... | 1734 - 1805 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
| Pelham, Peter |
Peter
Pelham (ca. 1695[1] – December 1751), American limner and engraver, was
born in England, a son of a man named "gentleman" in his will. His
father, who died in Chichester, Sussex, in 1756, is
revealed in letters to his son in America as a man of some property.[2]
London
Pelham was
one of several London artists who learned the then new... | 1695 - 1751 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Havell, Robert |
Robert Havell, Jr. (Nov. 25, 1793 - Nov. 11, 1878) was the
principal engraver of Audubon's Birds of America, perhaps the most significant
natural history publication of all time. His aquatint engraving of all but the
first ten plates of John James Audubon's Birds of America is now recognized as
a significant artistic achievement in its own right... | 1793 - 1878 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| 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 |
| Peale, Rubens |
Rubens
Peale (May 4, 1784 – July 17, 1865) was an American artist and museum
director. Born in Philadelphia, he was a son of artist-naturalist, Charles Willson Peale.
Life
He was the
fourth son of Charles Willson Peale. Rubens had weak
eyes and, unlike most of his siblings, did not set out to be an artist. He
traveled with the family in 1802 to... | 1784 - 1864 | Anonymous | 05/10/2012 |
| Peale, Sarah Miriam |
Sarah
Miriam Peale (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 19, 1800 – February 4,
1885, Philadelphia) was an American portrait painter, one of the notable family
of artists descended from the miniaturist and still-life painter James Peale,
who was her father. She is noted as a portrait painter, mainly of politicians
and military figures. Lafayette sat... | 1800 - 1885 | igrkio | 03/27/2012 |
| Browere, Albertus Del Orient |
Albertus,
born in Tarrytown, New York in 1814, was the son of a sculptor, John Henri
Isaac Browere (1790-1834), famous for his plaster
life masks of Thomas Jefferson, Gilbert Stuart, and others. Washington
Irving’s History of New York inspired Albertus
to depict Peter Stuyvesant’s Arrival at Hartford (1833), Recruiting Peter
Stuyvesant’s Army... | 1814 - 1887 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
