Artists
| Name | Info | Years
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| Snyder, William Henry | 1829 - 1910 | Anonymous | 04/12/2012 | |
| Saintin, Jules Emile | ![]()
Jules Émile Saintin (1829-1894)
was born in Lemée (Aisne), France on October
14, 1829 and died in Paris on July 14, 1894. He is considered a portrait,
historical and genre painter from the academic French school. He received his
formal art education in 1845 at the Ecole des
Beaux-arts under Michel-Martin Drolling (1786-1851), Achille-Jean-... | 1829 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Sloan, Junius R. | ![]()
Junius'
connection with Kewanee began in 1853 when his parents purchased 500 acres in
Wethersfield and Kewanee townships. It was one year before the founding of
Kewanee, but parents Seymour and Drusilla Sloan certainly knew the railroad was
on its way and that their investment in Illinois farmland had a promising
future.
The Sloans
came from... | 1827 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Sargent, Mary Newbold | 1826 - 1906 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
| Schussele, Christian | ![]()
Christian
Schussele (born Guebwiller, Alsace, 16 April 1824; died Merchantville, New
Jersey, 20 August 1879) was an artist. He studied under Adolphe Yvon and Paul
Delaroche 1842-1848 and then came to the United States. Here, for some time, he
worked at chromolithography which he had also pursued in France. Later he
devoted himself almost entirely... | 1824 - 1879 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Spencer, Lilly Martin | ![]()
Lilly
Martin Spencer (born Angelique Marie Martin) (November 26, 1822 – May 22,
1902) was one of the most popular and widely reproduced American female genre
painters in the mid-nineteenth century. She painted domestic scenes, women and
children in a warm happy atmosphere. Although she did have an audience for her
work Spencer had difficulties... | 1822 - 1902 | Anonymous | 04/12/2012 |
| Sonntag, William Louis | ![]()
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 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/24/2012 |
| Sheys, William P. | Died 1821 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| Snell, George | 1820 - 1893 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Suydam, James Augustus | ![]()
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 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/24/2012 |





