Artists
Name
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Chain, Helen Henderson | 1849 - 1892 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Catlin, George | ![]()
George
Catlin (July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American painter,
author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old
West.
Biography
Early years
Catlin was
born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His early work included engravings drawn
from nature of sites along the route of the Erie Canal in New York... | 1796 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Cassidy, Ira Diamond Gerald | 1879 - 1934 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 | |
Cassatt, Mary | ![]()
Mary
Stevenson Cassatt (pronounced /kəˈsæt/;
May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She
lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas
and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of
the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on... | 1844 - 1926 | Anonymous | 04/01/2012 |
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 |
Carr, Samuel S. | ![]()
Very little is known regarding Samuel S. Carr. He was born in England on 15 October 1837 and studied at the Royal Academy of Design at Chester. In 1863 he emigrated to the United States where in 1865 he attended a class in mechanical drawing at Cooper Union. From 1870 to 1907 he lived with his sister and brother-in-law at 461 Twelfth Street in... | 1837 - 1908 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Carpenter, Francis B. | ![]()
Francis
Bicknell Carpenter (August 6, 1830 – May 23, 1900) was an American
painter born in Homer, New York. Carpenter is best known for his painting First
Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln, which is hanging
in the United States Capitol. Carpenter resided with President Lincoln at the
White House and in 1866 published... | 1830 - 1900 | 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 |
Carlson, John Fabian | 1875 - 1945 | Anonymous | 10/21/2012 | |
Carlsen, Emil | ![]()
Soren
Emil Carlsen (October 19, 1853 – January 2,
1932, New York City, U.S.[2]) was an American
Impressionist painter who emigrated to the United States from Denmark.[3] While
he became known for his still lifes and has been
described as "The American Chardin," he
branched out later in his career and also became known for landscapes... | 1853 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |