Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cummings, Thomas Seir | 
Thomas Seir Cummings (1804-94) was an American miniature painter
and author, born at Bath, England. He came to New York early in life and
studied there with Henry Inman. He painted miniatures in water color, and many
of his sitters were well-known contemporaries of the artist. In 1826 he helped
to found the National Academy of Design, was its... | 1804 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Cranch, John | 1807 - 1891 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Chambers, Thomas |
Thomas
Chambers was born in London in 1808 and emigrated to
the United States in 1832. A painter of both landscapes and marine scenes,
Chambers did not confine his artistic subjects to views that he knew firsthand
but made liberal use of both his imagination and popular engraved images.
Chambers is known to have looked not only to the Englishman... | 1808 - 1866 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Chapman, John Gadsby |
John Gadsby
Chapman (December 3, 1808 – November 28, 1889) was an American artist
famous for The Baptism of Pocahontas, which was commissioned by the United
States Congress and hangs in the United States Capitol rotunda.
Life and career
John Chapman
was born in 1808 in Alexandria, Virginia. Chapman began his study of art in
Philadelphia for two... | 1808 - 1889 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Cook, Nelson |
Nelson Cook
(rarely, Cooke, seen esp in
Canada) was the son of furniture-maker Joseph Cook (b. ca 1768, Wallingford, CT
- d. 22 Dec 1864) and Mary Ann Tolman (Tallman?), b.
Guilford, MA; the parents moved to the Ballston Spa/Malta area of Saratoga
County around 1800 from Wallingford. Cook's birthdate
given here is derived from his death... | 1808 - 1892 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Carmiencke, Johann Hermann |
Johann
Hermann Carmiencke, a landscape painter and etcher, was born at Hamburg in
1810.
He went to Dresden
in 1831 as a journeyman painter, and while there studied in Dahl's school.
Thence he went to Copenhagen in 1834, where he studied in the Academy, and
presently repairing to Leipsic, received instruction there from Sohonberg.
Returning to... | 1810 - 1867 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Casilear, John William |
John
William Casilear (June 25, 1811 – August 17, 1893) was an American
landscape artist belonging to the Hudson River School.
Casilear
was born in New York City. His first professional training was under prominent New
York engraver Peter Maverick in the 1820s, then with Asher Durand, himself an
engraver at the time. Casilear and Durand became... | 1811 - 1893 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Clonney, James Goodwyn | 1812 - 1867 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Currier, Nathaniel |
Nathaniel
Currier (March 27, 1813 – November 20, 1888) was an American
lithographer, who headed the company Currier & Ives with James Ives.
Early years
Currier was
born in Roxbury, Massachusetts to Nathaniel and Hannah Currier. He attended
public school until age fifteen, when he was apprenticed to the Boston printing
firm of William and... | 1813 - 1888 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
| Carlin, John |
The success of Carlin’s colorful and detailed
portraits allowed him to campaign successfully for the advanced education of
deaf people in the United States.
Biography
Painter and
writer John Carlin, who was profoundly deaf from early infancy, was a
ground-breaking advocate for the advancement of deaf and mute people in
America. Born in the... | 1813 - 1891 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
