Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staigg, Richard Morrell | 
Richard
Morrell Staigg (7 September 1817 Leeds, England - 11 October 1881 Newport,
Rhode Island) was a portrait painter.
Biography
When he was
about thirteen years of age he was placed in an architect's office, and he
subsequently received a few weeks' instruction in portrait painting. In 1831 he
came to the United States with his father, and... | 1817 - 1881 | Anonymous | 04/12/2012 |
| Curtis, Ralph Wormeley |
Ralph
Wormeley Curtis (* 1854 in Boston , † 1922 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer ) was an
American painter and illustrator. The artists living in Europe, primarily under
the influence of his painter friends John Singer Sargent and James Abbott
McNeill Whistler. Among his most famous subjects include cityscapes of Venice
in the style of... | 1854 - 1922 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
| Shute, Ruth Whittier |
Ruth W.
Shute and her physician husband Dr. Samuel A. Shute were itinerant portrait
painters known for their individual and collaborated watercolor portraits of
individuals living in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and
northern New York State beginning in 1827.
It appears
Samuel became very ill around 1834-35 and was unable to... | 1803 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Wylie, Robert |
Robert
Wylie (1839 - February 4, 1877), American artist, was born in the Isle of Man
and relocated with his parents to the United States as a child.
Wylie
studied in the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, later serving a curator. In 1860, he helped found the
Philadelphia Sketch Club, now one of the nation's oldest... | 1839 - 1877 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Goodridge, Sarah |
Sarah
Goodridge (February 5, 1788 – December 28, 1853) was an American painter
who specialized in miniatures. She was the older sister of Elizabeth (Eliza)
Goodridge, also an American miniaturist.
Goodridge
was born in Templeton, Massachusetts, the sixth child and third daughter of
Ebenezer Goodridge and his wife Beulah Childs. At an early age,... | 1788 - 1853 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Isham, Samuel |
Samuel Isham (1855–1914) was an American portrait and figure
painter, born in New York. He graduated from Yale in 1875 and studied law, but
after being admitted to the bar he turned to art and studied in Paris at the Académie Julian. He exhibited at both Paris salons
and at the larger American exhibitions, and became a member of the... | 1855 - 1914 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
| Ferris, Stephen James |
An
influential Philadelphia painter and etcher of portraits and figure studies,
Stephen James Ferris studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy and in Paris,
under Jean Leon Gerome. He achieved a considerable reputation for his art in
both America and Europe and received the prestigious Fortuny
Prize for the best portrait, Rome, 1876. Stephen James... | 1835 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Guy, Seymour Joseph |
Seymour
Joseph Guy established a reputation in the United States in the mid-nineteenth
century as one of the finest genre painters of children. His primarily
cabinet-sized pictures were esteemed by his fellow artists and leading
collectors of American art. He was widely respected for his technical ability
and knowledge of the science of painting,... | 1824 - 1910 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Carr, Samuel S. |
Very little is known regarding Samuel S. Carr. He was born in England on 15 October 1837 and studied at the Royal Academy of Design at Chester. In 1863 he emigrated to the United States where in 1865 he attended a class in mechanical drawing at Cooper Union. From 1870 to 1907 he lived with his sister and brother-in-law at 461 Twelfth Street in... | 1837 - 1908 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| White, Stanford |
Stanford
White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and
partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead
& White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms.
He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various
public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found to
this day... | 1853 - 1906 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
