Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wores, Theodore | 
Theodore Wores (August 1, 1859–September 11, 1939) was an
American painter born in San Francisco, son of Joseph Wores
and Gertrude Liebke. His father worked as a hat
manufacturer in San Francisco. Wores began his art
training at age twelve in the studio of Joseph Harrington, who taught him
color, composition, drawing and perspective. When the San... | 1859 - 1939 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| Wright, James Henry | 1813 - 1883 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 | |
| Wyant, Alexander Helwig |
Alexander
Helwig Wyant, was born January 11, 1836, in Ohio - and he died November 29,
1892 in New York, New York.
He was an
American landscape painter. Also known as Alexander Wyant, A. H. Wyant, he was
active as an artist in Arkville, New York, and Keene Valley, New York among
other places.
Biography
Alexander
Wyant was born at Port Washington,... | 1836 - 1892 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| 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 |
| Yeager, Joseph | 1792 - 1859 | Anonymous | 07/28/2012 | |
| Yelland, Raymond | 1848 - 1900 | Anonymous | 12/16/2012 | |
| Yewell, George Henry | 1830 - 1923 | igrkio | 03/27/2012 | |
| Young, Harvey O. |
Harvey Otis Young was born in Lyndon, Vermont on November 23, 1840. He was educated there at St Johnsbury Academy and, as a teenager, worked as an ornamental painter decorating scales. In 1859 he sailed from New York City via Panama to San Francisco in search of gold. When not panning for gold in the Salmon River area, he made many sketches which... | 1840 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Young, William Sheridan | William Sheridan Young is another elusive artist, all but forgotten by history's imperfect memory. His 1866 address was Philadelphia, and yet he appears never to have exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts or the National Academy of Design. Rather, his paintings were occasionally found in exhibitions in Cincinnati (1866 and 1873)... | Active 1866 - 1876 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 |
| Zeliff, Amzi Emmons |
Amzi Emmons Zeliff was born 11 April 1831, in Morris County, New Jersey, son of Daniel P. and Maria Van Houton Zeliff and a descendant of early Dutch settlers of Staten Island and New Jersey. He later may have moved to Essex County for a period, perhaps upon his marriage to Cornelia Harris.
Family members say that at one time he owned the White Horse... | 1831 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/02/2012 |
