Artists

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Shapleigh, Frank Henrynotes
Frank H. Shapleigh was born in Boston and studied painting at the Lowell Institute of Drawing.  In 1867-1868, he sailed to Europe where he studied in the studio of Emile Lambinet (1815-1877). Shapleigh painted throughout New England, in St. Augustine, Florida, California, and in Europe.  For sixteen years, from 1877 to 1893, he was...
1842 - 1906Anonymous05/22/2012
Stanwood, Franklinnotes
Franklin Stanwood was born in the Portland Alms House and shortly thereafter was adopted by Captain Gideon Stanwood. He was self-taught and developed a very linear style, which accorded well with the ship portraits for which he is best known.  He also painted "house portraits" and landscapes.  He was a sailor by profession and perhaps went to...
1852 - 1888Anonymous05/22/2012
Smillie, George Henrynotes
George Henry Smillie (1840 - 1921), brother of artist James David Smillie, was a painter. He studied under his father, James Smillie, and under James McDougal Hart, and became a member of the National Academy of Design in 1882. Like his brother, he painted both in oils and in water colour. His favourite subjects were scenes along the New England...
1840 - 1921Anonymous05/22/2012
Suydam, James Augustusnotes
The work of James Augustus Suydam, characterized by idealized tranquil landscapes and seascapes illuminated by softly sunlit skies, is emblematic of the American Luminist movement of the nineteenth century. Biography James Augustus Suydam was born on March 27, 1819 in New York City. Suydam’s family was of Dutch decedent, tracing their ancestry...
1819 - 1865Anonymous05/24/2012
Smillie, James Davidnotes
James David Smillie (January 16, 1833 - September 14, 1909), American artist, was born in New York City. His father, James Smillie (1807-1885), a Scottish engraver, emigrated to New York in 1829, was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1851, did much, with his brother William C. (1813-1908), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an...
1833 - 1909Anonymous05/22/2012
Scott, John White Allennotes
John White Allen Scott (1815-1907) or John W.A. Scott was an artist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1][2] He worked for Pendleton's Lithography early in his career. In the 1840s he started a lithography business in partnership with Fitz Hugh Lane ("Lane & Scott's Lithography").[3][4] Around 1852 he kept a studio in Boston's...
1815 - 1907Anonymous04/10/2012
Sonntag, William Louisnotes
William Sonntag was one of the central figures of the Hudson River School. Primarily self-taught, his early landscapes were executed during painting excursions from Cincinnati to the Ohio River Valley and in Kentucky and West Virginia (1856 and 1859). Born in East Liberty, Pennsylvania March 2, 1822, it is believed Sonntag studied for a short period...
1822 - 1900Anonymous05/24/2012
Stanley, Abram Rossnotes
Although the details of Abram Ross Stanley's life are not certain, he was probably born March 16, 1816, in Salisbury, Herkimer County, New York, to Jedediah and Prudence Stanley, who had moved there six years earlier from New Hampshire. Based on his middle name, the artist is sometimes identified as a descendant of Betsy Ross, but there is no...
1816 - 1875Anonymous04/03/2012
Smith, Allennotes
Allen Smith, Jr., met with considerable success in the Midwest as a portraitist. He studied briefly with William D. Parisen (1800-1832) while attending the antique classes at the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York. Smith also attended the antique class of the National Academy of Design, where he won a prize in 1833. He exhibited at the...
1810 - 1890Anonymous05/22/2012
Smith, Dananotes
Very little is known about Dana Smith, the supposed painter of the National Gallery's painting Southern Resort Town (1971.83.11) and New Hampshire Panorama (also a Garbisch gift, to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). According to the Garbisch records, he was born in New Hampshire in 1805, lived in Franklin where he painted local scenes and died...
1805 - 1901Anonymous05/22/2012
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