Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ames, Ezra | 
Ezra Ames (May 5, 1768 – February 23, 1836) was a popular portrait painter in Albany, New York during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. More than 700 portraits have been attributed to him.
He was born in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1768. He moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1790, and married Zipporah Wood in 1794. Some time later he moved... | 1768 - 1836 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
| Allston, Washington |
Washington
Allston (November 5, 1779 – July 9, 1843) was an American painter and
poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina.
Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting. He was
well known during his lifetime for his experiments with dramatic subject matter
and his bold use of light and atmospheric... | 1779 - 1843 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
| Audubon, John James |
John James
Audubon (Jean-Jacques Audubon) (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a
French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his
expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed
illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats. His major
work, a color-plate book... | 1785 - 1851 | Anonymous | 07/23/2012 |
| Alexander, Francis |
The son of
a farmer, Francis Alexander was born in Killingly, Connecticut, on February 3,
1800. During the winters of his eighteenth and nineteenth years he earned a
small sum teaching in the local school and at the age of twenty used it to seek
instruction in New York City. He studied for several weeks with Alexander
Robertson, but was forced to... | 1800 - 1880 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
| Ames, Daniel F. | 1803 - 1886 | Anonymous | 01/07/2013 | |
| Andrews, Ambrose |
Ambrose Andrews was born in West Stockbridge, MA in 1805. He was a painter of landscapes, portraits and miniatures.
He studied at the National Academy of Design, NYC in 1824.
He started to work as a full time artist shortly after 1824 and was active throughout his life. He worked in Schuylerville, New York in 1824, in Troy, New York from 1829 to 1831,... | 1805 - 1870 | Anonymous | 01/06/2013 |
| Agate, Alfred Thomas |
Alfred Thomas Agate (February 14, 1812, in Sparta, New York – January 5, 1846, Washington, D.C.) was a noted American artist, painter and miniaturist.
Agate lived in New York from 1831–1838. He studied with his brother, Frederick Styles Agate, a portrait and historical painter. He later went on to study with Thomas Seir Cummings.[citation needed]... | 1812 - 1846 | Anonymous | 11/17/2012 |
| Audubon, John Woodhouse | 1812 - 1862 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 | |
| Ames, Joseph Alexander |
Joseph
Alexander Ames (1816–1872) was an American artist, primarily known for
portrait and genre painting. Originally named Joseph Emes,
he was born in Roxbury, New Hampshire. Ames began painting at a young age. At
the age of twelve Henry Theodore Tuckerman wrote about one of his paintings.
After moderate success at home in Saugus, Massachusetts,... | 1816 - 1872 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
| Armstrong, William G. | 1823 - 1890 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
