Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| The Pollard Limner |
The Pollard
Limner, identified on the basis of his portrait of Ann Pollard, 1721, was
active in the Boston area from around the last decade of the seventeenth
century through the first third of the eighteenth century. So far some twenty
paintings by this hand have been identified.
Stylistically,
all of The Pollard Limner's portraits are related by... | Born 1690 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |
| Pelham, Peter |
Peter
Pelham (ca. 1695[1] – December 1751), American limner and engraver, was
born in England, a son of a man named "gentleman" in his will. His
father, who died in Chichester, Sussex, in 1756, is
revealed in letters to his son in America as a man of some property.[2]
London
Pelham was
one of several London artists who learned the then new... | 1695 - 1751 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Feke, Robert | 1705 - 1752 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
| Badger, Joseph |
Joseph Badger (ca.1707–1765) was a portrait artist in Boston, Massachusetts in the 18th-century. He painted some 80 portraits of merchants, businessmen, clergy, and other notables, and their wives and children.
Biography
Badger was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, to tailor Stephen Badger and Mercy Kettell. In 1731 he married Katharine Felch;... | 1707 - 1765 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
| Wollaston, John |
John
Wollaston (active between 1742 and 1775) was an English painter of portraits
who was active in the British colonies in North America for much of his career.
He was one of a handful of painters to introduce the English Rococo style to
the American colonies.[1]
Biography
Little is
known of Wollaston's early life. He is believed to have been... | 1710 - 1775 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
| Theus, Jeremiah |
Jeremiah Theus (sometimes Jeremiah Theüs[note 1]) (April
5, 1716 – May 17, 1774) was a Swiss-born American painter, primarily of
portraits. He was active mainly around Charleston, South Carolina, in which
city he remained almost without competition for the bulk of his career.[1]
Early life and career
Theus was
born in the city of Chur, in the... | 1716 - 1774 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| The Schuyler Limner |
The
designation "Schuyler Limner" or "Schuyler Painter" can be
applied to the anonymous maker, active circa 1717 to circa 1725, of some two
dozen early eighteenth-century portraits of subjects from the Albany, New York,
area. The name is derived from what appears to be the earliest and most
ambitious effort by the artist, the full-length portrait... | Born 1717 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Kilburn, Lawrence | 1720 - 1775 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
| Pine, Robert Edge |
Robert Edge
Pine was an English portraitist and history painter who spent the last four
years of his life in the United States. He was one of the first artists to
paint history paintings of the events of the American Revolution.
Pine was
born in London, around 1730, the son of engraver John Pine. His exact birth
date has never been discovered, and... | 1720 - 1788 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
