Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooke, George | 
George
Cooke (1793–1849) was an itinerant United States painter who specialized
in portrait and landscape paintings and was one of the South's best known
painters of the mid nineteenth century.[1] His primary
patron was the industrialist Daniel Pratt, who built a gallery in Prattville,
Alabama solely to house Cooke's paintings.[1]
Early career... | 1793 - 1849 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Codman, Charles |
Charles
Codman (circa 1800–1842) was a landscape painter of Portland, Maine. His
art is featured at the Portland Museum of Art as mature, fine early American
landscape painting.
Codman was
probably from Boston and was apprenticed to the ornamental painter, John Ritto
Penniman. Codman began as a decorative painter and had no formal training... | 1800 - 1842 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Coates, Edmund C. |
A versatile
nineteenth-century painter, Edmund C. Coates created landscapes, seascapes,
portraits, and history paintings. Born in England, Coates spent his adult life
in New York City, where he was a frequent exhibitor at the National Academy of
Design. Working in the style of the Hudson River School, Coates produced
beautiful, idealized images of... | 1816 - 1871 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Clough, George Lafayette |
George
Lafayette Clough was born in 1824, in Auburn, New York, and was that city's
leading landscapist and most noted resident painter of the mid-century. His
mother was widowed shortly after his birth, and he was raised without paternal
influence. He had little formal education and was employed by the age of ten.
By age fifteen he had taken up... | 1824 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Closson, William Baxter Palmer | 1848 - 1926 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Cloriviere, Joseph-Pierre Picot de Limoelan de | 1768 - 1826 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Clonney, James Goodwyn | 1812 - 1867 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Clague, Richard |
Widely
credited as the founder of the landscape painting tradition in Louisiana,
French-born painter Richard Clague received most of
his formal artistic training in Europe. While landscape painting had gained
some popularity in the northern states by the early nineteenth century and
there was a strong tradition of decorative and scenic painting,... | 1821 - 1873 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Churchill, William W. | 1858 - 1926 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Chase, William Merritt |
William
Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 – October 25, 1916) was an American
painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also
responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons
The New School for Design.
Early life and training
He was born
in Williamsburg (now Nineveh), Indiana, to the... | 1849 - 1916 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
