Artists
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Calyo, Nicolino | ![]()
Born in
Naples, Nicolino Calyo was
an accomplished American nineteenth century view painter who brought the
discipline of his classical European training to vibrant portrayals of the
American scene. He studied at the
Naples Academy, where he learned Neoclassical, Italian, and Dutch landscape
techniques and traditions. Calyo fled Italy in 1821,... | 1799 - 1884 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Cafferty, James H. | 1819 - 1869 | 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 |
Culverhouse, Johan Mengels | ![]()
Born in
Rotterdam on August 29,1820, Johan Mengels
Culverhouse was one of six children of R. Culverhouse and C. Mengels. Culverhouse made a name for himself as a
"candlelight painter," specializing in nocturnal scenes illuminated
by moonlight or candlelight in the tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch
painting. In the same tradition he also... | 1820 - ca. 1891 | Anonymous | 05/13/2012 |
Collins, Alfred Quinton | 1855 - 1903 | Anonymous | 05/10/2012 | |
Clear, Thomas Le | 1818 - 1882 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
Crane, Bruce | ![]()
Bruce Crane
(1857– October 30, 1937, Bronxville, New York) was an American painter.
He joined the Lyme Art Colony in the early 1900s. His most active period,
though, came after 1920, when for more than a decade he did oil sketches of
woods, meadows, and hills. He developed into a Tonalist painter under the
influence of Jean Charles Cazin at... | 1857 - 1937 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
Colman, Samuel | ![]()
Samuel
Colman (March 4, 1832 – March 26, 1920) was an American painter, interior
designer, and writer, probably best remembered for his paintings of the Hudson
River.
Born in Portland,
Maine, Colman moved to New York City with his family as a child. His father
opened a bookstore, attracting a literate clientele that may have influenced
Colman's... | 1832 - 1920 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
Chappel, Alonzo | ![]()
Alonzo
Chappel (1828–1887) was an American painter, best known for paintings
depicting personalities and events from the American Revolution and early
19th-century American history.
Chappel was
born in New York City and died in Middle Island, New York.[1]
References
^ "Alonzo
Chappel". Smithsonian
Institution. Retrieved
2009-01-22.
External... | 1828 - 1887 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
Curtis, Ralph Wormeley | ![]()
Ralph
Wormeley Curtis (* 1854 in Boston , † 1922 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer ) was an
American painter and illustrator. The artists living in Europe, primarily under
the influence of his painter friends John Singer Sargent and James Abbott
McNeill Whistler. Among his most famous subjects include cityscapes of Venice
in the style of... | 1854 - 1922 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |