Artists
Name | Info | Years
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Smibert, John | ![]()
John
Smybert (or Smibert) (1688–1751), Scottish American artist, was born in
Edinburgh and died in Boston, Massachusetts.
Smibert began
drawing while apprenticed as a painter and plasterer, on moving to London he
worked as a painter of coach carriages and a copyist. He studied under Sir
James Thornhill at his academy, then travelled to Edinburgh... | 1688 - 1751 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
Vanderlyn, Pieter | ![]()
Pieter
Vanderlyn (* 1687 , † 1778 in Shawangunk ) was an American painter of
Dutch origin. He is the Patroon Painters counted.
Vanderlyn
in 1718 emigrated from the Netherlands, probably via Curacao to New York one.
It is unclear where he then resided, presumably in Kingston on the Hudson River
, 130 km north of New York , or Albany .
He... | 1687 - 1778 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
Partridge, Nehemiah | ![]()
In 1980
Mary Black proposed that Nehemiah Partridge may be the anonymous artist
recognized variously by the appellations "Schuyler Limner" and "Aetatis Suae Limner".
Nehemiah
Partridge, one of four members of his family known to have borne this name, was
one of five children of Col. William Partridge (c. 1652-1728) and Mary Brown,
who were married... | 1683 - 1737 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
The Freake Limner | Born 1670 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 | |
Duyckinck, Gerrit | 1660 - ca. 1712 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Smith, Thomas | ![]()
Thomas
Smith was a seventeenth-century Anglo-American mariner and artist. He is the
earliest painter in New England for whom a specific canvas can
be—identified his self-portrait (fig. 1). Based on stylistic similarities
to that painting, five additional surviving works have been attributed to
Smith. Besides his role as an artist, interpretations... | 1650 - 1691 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Tieling, Lodewijk | Active ca. 1700 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
Sullivan, M.A. | Active ca. 1868 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
Roberts, Mary | ![]()
Mary
Roberts (died 1761) was an American miniaturist active in Charleston, South
Carolina in the 1740s and 1750s. One of the earliest American miniaturists, and
the first woman recorded as working in the medium in the American colonies,[1]
she is also believed to have painted the first watercolor-on-ivory miniature in
the... | Active ca. 1745 - 1755 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 |
Hunten, F. G. W. | Active ca. 1850 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |