Artists
Name | Info | Years
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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 |
Cloriviere, Joseph-Pierre Picot de Limoelan de | 1768 - 1826 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Corne, Michele Felice | ![]()
Michele Felice Cornè, considered
to be Salem, Massachusetts’ most versatile early nineteenth century
artist, arrived in America from Naples, Italy in 1800. Cornè
worked and lived in Salem from 1800-06 when he moved to Boston. During his
Boston tenure (1807-22) the artist was noted for painting portraits of Boston
ships and naval battles of the... | 1752 - 1845 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Copley, John Singleton | ![]()
John Singleton Copley (1738[1] – 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts, and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects. His paintings were innovative in their tendency to... | 1738 - 1815 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
Chappel, William P. | Active ca. 1869 - 1870 | Anonymous | 06/02/2012 |