Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tucker, Allen | 
Allen
Tucker (1866–1939) was an American artist.
Biography
He was born
in Brooklyn, New York in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines of
Columbia University in 1887 with a degree in architecture and worked as a
draftsman at McIlvaine and Tucker.[1] He died in 1939.
References
^ a b "Allen Tucker (1866-1939)". Gleason Fine Art.... | 1866 - 1939 | Anonymous | 04/30/2012 |
| Thompson, Benjamin |
Sir
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (in German: Reichsgraf von Rumford), FRS
(March 26, 1753 – August 21, 1814) was an Anglo-American physicist and
inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th
century revolution in thermodynamics. He also served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in
the Loyalist forces in America during... | 1753 - 1814 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Ulrich, Charles Frederick |
Expatriate
painter Charles Frederick Ulrich documented the ordinary life of immigrants,
craftsmen, and other rarely portrayed subjects in late nineteenth-century
Europe and America in interior genre scenes, or scenes of everyday life, that
emphasize the subtle effects of daylight. Ulrich was a native of New York City
and the son of a photographer.... | 1858 - 1908 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 |
| Wimar, Charles |
Karl
Ferdinand Wimar (also known as Charles Wimar and Carl Wimar)
(1828-1862), was a painter of Western Native Americans and buffaloes.
He is
particularly known for his 1855-1856 painting entitled The Abduction of Boone's
Daughter by the Indians, a depiction of the 1776 capture of Jemima Boone and
two other girls by Indians. The painting shows... | 1828 - 1862 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
| Tryon, Dwight W. |
Dwight
William Tryon (August 13, 1849 – July 1, 1925) was an American landscape
painter in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work was influenced by
James McNeill Whistler, and he is best-known for his landscapes and seascapes
painted in a tonalist style.
Biography
Tryon was
born in Hartford, Connecticut. His father was killed in a gun... | 1849 - 1925 | Anonymous | 04/13/2012 |
| Weeks, Edwin Lord |
Edwin Lord
Weeks (1849 – 1903), American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts,
in 1849. He was a pupil of Léon Bonnat and of Jean-Léon
Gérôme, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was
distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes.
Weeks'
parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston
and as such... | 1849 - 1903 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Vedder, Elihu |
Elihu Vedder (February 26, 1836 – January 29, 1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet, born in New York City.
He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (deluxe edition, published by Houghton Mifflin).
Biography
Elihu Vedder was born February 26,... | 1836 - 1923 | Anonymous | 11/12/2012 |
| Wachtel, Elmer |
Painter. Born in Baltimore, MD on Jan. 21, 1864.
When Elmer
was quite young, the Wachtel family moved to Lanark, IL where he worked as a
hired hand and taught himself to play the violin.
At age 18,
he moved to San Gabriel, CA where his brother had married the sister of artist
Guy Rose and was managing the large Rose ranch. He continued playing... | 1864 - 1929 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Waugh, Frederick Judd |
Frederick
Judd Waugh (September 13, 1861 – September 10, 1940) was an American
artist, primarily known as a marine artist. During World War I, he designed
ship camouflage for the U.S. Navy, under the direction of Everett L. Warner.
Background
Born in
Bordentown, New Jersey, Waugh was the son of a well-known Philadelphia portrait
painter, Samuel... | 1861 - 1940 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Vinton, Frederick Porter |
Frederic
Porter Vinton (January 29, 1846 – May 19, 1911), sometimes spelled
"Frederick", was an American portrait painter from Bangor, Maine. He
grew up in Chicago, and moved to Boston in 1861[1] For twenty years he worked
as a bookkeeper, during which he studied art under William Rimmer at the Lowell
Institute. Soon after studying at the... | 1846 - 1911 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
