Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raleigh, Charles S. | 
According
to the recollections of his daughter Flora Raleigh Phinney,
Charles Sidney Raleigh produced more than eleven hundred paintings, six hundred
of them of whaling ships. Raleigh had an early introduction to maritime
pursuits. Born in Gloucester, England, in 1831, he left home at the age of ten
and spent the next thirty years as a sailor and... | 1830 - 1925 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
| Ramsey, Milne |
Born in Philadelphia in 1847, Milne Ramsey was a still life, landscape, and figure painter who remains best known for his highly realistic his still-life scenes.
Early in his career as an artist, Ramsey studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and then under Leon Bonnat in Paris from 1871-1876. Although he exhibited extensively throughout his... | 1846 - 1915 | Anonymous | 03/04/2013 |
| Randall, A.M. |
No
information on the artist has been located. The artist's name and active date
of 1777 come from the inscription on the National Gallery's painting Basket of
Fruit with Parrot (1980.62.20). While it is possible that this is an English
painting, it probably was produced in America by an artist copying a European
still life, or more likely, a... | Active ca. 1777 | Anonymous | 11/02/2013 |
| Ranney, William Tylee |
William
Tylee Ranney (May 9, 1813 – November 18, 1857) was a 19th-century
American painter, known for his depictions of Western life, sporting scenery,
historical subjects and portraiture. In his 20-year career, he made 150
paintings and 80 drawings, and is considered the first major genre painter to
work in New Jersey, and one of the most... | 1813 - 1857 | Anonymous | 04/12/2012 |
| Read, Thomas Buchanan |
Thomas
Buchanan Read (March 12, 1822 – May 11, 1872),
was an American poet and portrait painter.
Biography
Read was
born in Chester County, Pennsylvania on March 12, 1822.
Read wrote
a prose romance, The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard, and several books of
poetry, including The New Pastoral, The House by the Sea, Sylvia, and A Summer
Story.... | 1822 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Redmond, Granville |
Granville
Redmond (March 9, 1871 – May 24, 1935) was an American landscape painter
and exponent of Tonalism and California
Impressionism.
Early years
Granville
Richard Seymour Redmond was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 9, 1871
to a hearing family. He contracted Scarlet Fever at around 2½ to the age
of 3; when he recovered, he was... | 1871 - 1935 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Reid, Robert |
Robert
Lewis Reid (July 29, 1862 – December 2, 1929) was an American
Impressionist painter and muralist.
Life and work
Robert Reid
was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and attended the School of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston under Otto Grundmann, where he was also later an instructor.
In 1884 he moved to New York City, studying at the Art... | 1862 - 1929 | Anonymous | 05/26/2012 |
| Richards, William Trost |
William
Trost Richards (June 3, 1833 - April 17, 1905) was an American landscape artist
associated with both the Hudson River School and the American Pre-Raphaelite
movement.
Biography
William Trost
Richards was born on 3 June 1833 in Philadelphia. In 1846 and 1847 he attended
the local Central High School. Between 1850 and 1855 he studied... | 1833 - 1905 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Rimmer, William |
William
Rimmer (20 February 1816 – 20 August 1879) was an American artist born in
Liverpool, England. He was the son of a French refugee, who emigrated to Nova
Scotia, where he was joined by his wife and child in 1818, and who in 1826
moved to Boston, where he earned a living as a shoemaker. The son learned the
father's trade; at fifteen became a... | 1816 - 1879 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Rindisbacher, Peter |
Peter Rindisbacher (12 April 1806 – 12 August or 13 August
1834) was a North American artist who specialized in watercolors and
illustrations dealing with First Nation tribes of mid-Western Canada and the
United States, mostly depictions of the Anishinaabe,
Cree, and Sioux, usually in group action or genre scenes.[1]
He seldom did individual... | 1806 - 1834 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
