Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seavey, Julian R. | 
Julian Ruggles Seavey was one of the
most prestigious artists to have called Hamilton his home. He was born in
Boston, Massachusetts, on April 24, 1857 and studied art in New York, Paris,
Rome, and Germany before coming to Hamilton in 1879. During the time he lived
here, Seavey was a major force in promoting local art
and culture.
Seavey
was a... | 1857 - 1940 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
| Senior, C.F. |
No other
works by C. F. Senior, who signed his name so prominently and clearly in the
corner of the National Gallery's painting The Sportsman's Dream (1980.62.21),
have ever been discovered. He is believed to have been active in 1881 or later.
A genre painter by the same name is listed in Lipman
and Winchester's Primitive Painters in America as... | Born 1881 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Shannon, Sir James Jebusa |
Sir James
Jebusa Shannon (1862 - 1923), Anglo-American artist, was born in Auburn, New
York, and at the age of eight was taken by his parents to Canada.
When he was
sixteen, he went to England, where he studied at South Kensington, and after
three years won the gold medal for figure painting. His portrait of the Hon.
Horatia Stopford , one of the... | 1862 - 1923 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| Sharples, James |
James Sharples (1751 or 1752 in Lancashire – 26 February
1811 in New York [1]) was an English portrait painter and pastelist,
who moved to the United States in 1794. He first exhibited at the Royal
Academy in 1779.
History
James was
first intended for the Catholic priesthood, but became an artist instead.[3] Sharples headed a family... | 1751 - 1811 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
| Shattuck, Aaron Draper |
Aaron
Draper Shattuck (1832-1928) was an American painter of the White Mountain
School. He was born in Francestown, New Hampshire. A second-generation artist
affiliated with the Hudson River School, Shattuck differed from most of his
contemporaries in that he never studied abroad, and appears to have spent his
entire life in New... | 1832 - 1928 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Shaw, Joshua |
Joshua Shaw
(1776-1860) was an Anglo-American artist and inventor.[1]
Early life
Shaw was
born in Ellesmere Port, England in 1776 and was orphaned at the age of 7. To
survive he worked for a local farmer as a bird scarer. During the three years
he spent doing this work he discovered his artistic talent and began drawing
the animals he... | 1776 - 1860 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Sheffield, Isaac |
Little is
known about the life of Isaac Sheffield, yet he left a substantial body of
easily recognizable work. His usual subjects, painted during the 1830s and
early 1840s, were sea captains and their families from the bustling Connecticut
port of New London and nearby towns.
The
artist's father, Captain Isaac Sheffield, was a shipmaster who... | 1798 - 1845 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Silva, Francis A. |
Francis
Augustus Silva painted coastal, beach, and river scenes that represent the
culmination of the landscape mode, dubbed “luminism”
by modern scholars, characterized by broad, horizontal compositions with low
horizons, delicate color, and crystalline light. Silva was a native of New York
City and the son of a barber. Apprenticed to a sign... | 1835 - 1886 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
| Ordway, Alfred T. |
Alfred T.
Ordway (1821–1897) was an American landscape and portrait painter, and
one of the founding fathers of the Boston Art Club.[1]
Early years
Alfred was
born in Roxbury, Massachusetts to mother Currier, and father Thomas Ordway on
March 9, 1821. With his father being the cities' clerk, Alfred spent the
majority of his childhood in Lowell,... | 1821 - 1897 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| Newman, Benjamin Tupper |
Benjamin
Tupper Newman was born in Bath, Maine.
He studied
at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design, Jullen's Art
School, and the Beaux Arts in Paris.
He traveled to Europe five times where he painted in southern France and
Italy. He painted scenes throughout
the United States - California, Lake Michigan, Colorado, the... | 1858 - 1940 | Anonymous | 01/02/2013 |
