Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robbins, Ellen | 
Ellen
Robbins is best known for her watercolor paintings of flowers and autumn
leaves. Primarily a self-taught watercolorist, Robbins was born in Watertown,
Massachusetts in 1828. During her youth, she spent hours copying lithographs
from drawing books. During the 1940s, she studied briefly at the New England
School of Design and Manchester... | 1828 - 1905 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
| Robinson, J.C. |
The
inscription on the reverse of the National Gallery's Portrait of an Old Man
(1955.11.14) identifies the painter as J. C. Robinson. No biographical
information on Robinson has been discovered. A Joseph C. Robinson who made
daguerreotypes is listed in directories from New York City in 1848 and from
Cincinnati in 1850-1851. Whether he painted... | Born 1848 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Roesen, Severin |
Severin
Roesen (ca. 1815 – after 1872) is a painter known for his abundant fruit
and flower still lifes and is today recognized as one of the major American
still-life painters of the mid-nineteenth century.
Life
Little is
known about Roesen. He is believed to have been born in or near Cologne, and to
have exhibited a floral painting at the... | 1815 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Rondel, Frederick |
Picnic
scenes became an increasingly popular genre subject in American painting during
the nineteenth century. Though Frederick Rondel, born and trained in Paris, is
known most often as a landscapist, it is his genre scenes set within rustic
landscapes such as The Picnic, which recall the era's genteel charm.
By 1855,
Rondel was living in Boston,... | 1826 - 1892 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |
| Rose, Guy |
Guy Rose (3
March 1867–17 November 1925) was an American Impressionist painter who is
recognized as one of California's top impressionist painters of the late 19th
and early 20th centuries.
Guy Orlando
Rose was born March 3, 1867 in San Gabriel, California. He was the seventh
child of Leonard John Rose and Amanda Jones Rose.
His father
was a... | 1867 - 1925 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Rosenthal, Toby |
Toby Edward
Rosenthal (15 March 1848 in New Haven, Connecticut – 23 December 1917 in
Munich) was an American painter.
Biography
Moving to
San Francisco with his parents in 1855, he there studied painting under
Fortunato Arriola. In 1865 he went to Munich, where he was a pupil of the Royal
Academy under Strachuber, Karl Raupp and Karl Theodor... | 1848 - 1917 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |
| Rossiter, Thomas Prichard |
Thomas
Prichard Rossiter (1818-1871) was born in New Haven,
Connecticut. He first learned painting as an apprentice for a Mr. John Boyd,
and also studied with Nathaniel Jocelyn. In 1838 he exhibited two paintings at
the National Academy of Design, and in 1939 moved to New York City and opened a
studio.
In 1840, Rossiter traveled to Europe with... | 1818 - 1871 | Anonymous | 06/11/2012 |
| Rothermel, Peter Frederick |
Peter
Frederick Rothermel (July 8, 1817 – August 15, 1895) was an American
painter.
Biography
Rothermel
was born in Nescopeck, Pennsylvania in 1817, although some date his birth
earlier, in 1813 or 1814. He had a common-school education, and studied land
surveying.[1] At age 20, he moved to Philadelphia and became a sign painter.[2]
Then at age... | 1812 - 1895 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Rowley, Reuben |
Little is
known about the life of Reuben Rowley, an itinerant miniature and portrait
painter. Based upon the identification of the sitters in several portraits
dating from the 1820s, he appears to have worked mainly in central New York
State between circa 1825 and 1836. It has long been assumed that Rowley and an
artist named Reuben Roulery, who is... | Born 1825 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Russell, Charles M. |
Charles
Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 – October 24, 1926),[1]
also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was
an artist of the Old American West. Russell created more than 2,000 paintings
of cowboys, Indians, and landscapes set in the Western United States, in
addition to bronze sculptures. Known as 'the cowboy... | 1864 - 1926 | Anonymous | 05/27/2012 |
