Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrews, Ambrose | 
Ambrose Andrews was born in West Stockbridge, MA in 1805. He was a painter of landscapes, portraits and miniatures.
He studied at the National Academy of Design, NYC in 1824.
He started to work as a full time artist shortly after 1824 and was active throughout his life. He worked in Schuylerville, New York in 1824, in Troy, New York from 1829 to 1831,... | 1805 - 1870 | Anonymous | 01/06/2013 |
| Dickinson, Anson |
Anson Dickinson, a painter of miniature portraits, was born in Milton, Connecticut, in 1779. He was the eldest of ten children born to Oliver Dickinson Junior (1757-1847) and Anna Landon Dickinson (1760-1849). As a boy, Anson Dickinson was apprenticed to Litchfield silversmith Isaac Thompson. Little else is known about his early art training. He first... | 1779 - 1852 | Anonymous | 05/13/2012 |
| McCloskey, Alberta Binford |
In early
June 1884, William and Alberta, with two-month-old Eleanor, arrived in Los
Angeles for a visit with the Binford family.
"Mr. McCloskey is an artist of some note and is now making his first visit
to the Pacific Coast. Should he find a suitable opening, we understand he will
take up his residence in our city."[17] By 1884, the Binford
family... | 1863 - 1911 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
| Wenzell, Albert Beck |
The Bell Époche, prior to World War I, was a prosperous and
extravagant era when royalty governed most of Europe. At the same time in the
United States, great fortunes were being made through unfettered trusts and
monopolies, creating a class of Nouveau Riche. This ambitious society of Robber
Barons and their social climbing wives was just as... | 1864 - 1917 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Redwood, Allen Christian |
Allen
Christian Redwood was one of the few sketch artists of the Civil War who
actually fought in military battles, and his documentation was of noted
historical value to the Southern side of the War. By the 1890s, he was a
western illustrator for Harper's, Century and other magazines and traveled
widely in the West. In 1898 Harper's sent him to... | 1844 - 1922 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Laux, August |
German born
August Laux achieved a considerable reputation in the
1870s for his frescoes and decorative paintings, but switched to genre scenes
and still lifes a decade later. His work, always
traditional in style, was highly regarded in his day but forgotten soon after
his death.
He was born
in the Pfalz area of the Rhineland in 1847 to... | 1847 - 1921 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Agate, Alfred Thomas |
Alfred Thomas Agate (February 14, 1812, in Sparta, New York – January 5, 1846, Washington, D.C.) was a noted American artist, painter and miniaturist.
Agate lived in New York from 1831–1838. He studied with his brother, Frederick Styles Agate, a portrait and historical painter. He later went on to study with Thomas Seir Cummings.[citation needed]... | 1812 - 1846 | Anonymous | 11/17/2012 |
| Wertmuller, Adolf Ulrich |
Adolf Ulrik
Wertmüller (February 18, 1751 — October 5, 1811) was a Swedish
painter whose notable works include Danaë receiving Jupiter in a Shower of
Gold.
Wertmüller
was born in Stockholm and studied art at home before moving to Paris in 1772 to
study under his cousin Alexander Roslin and French painter Joseph-Marie
Vien.[1] On July 30,... | 1751 - 1811 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Toermer, Benno Friedrich |
Törmer
: Benno Frederick T. (Not Thörmer how Nagler writes) Painter, was born on
4 July 1804 in Dresden-Neustadt, the second son of the Royal. Saxon. Captain
and drawing teacher at the Engineering Academy of Dresden born. Because he
wanted to devote himself to painting, he entered the Art Academy there on 6
November 1819th Already in the next, as... | 1804 - 1859 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Otis, Bass |
Bass Otis
(July 17, 1784 - November 3, 1861), was an early
American artist, inventor, and portrait painter. He painted hundreds of
portraits including many of the best known Americans of his day, and produced
the first American lithograph in 1819.
Life and work
Otis was
born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, the son of Josiah Otis, a... | 1784 - 1861 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
