Artists

NameInfoYearsUpdated byDate
Doughty, Thomasnotes
Thomas Doughty was born in Philadelphia on July 19, 1793, and lived there until 1828. Although little is known about his formal education, he apparently showed a strong talent for drawing from an early age. When he was fifteen or sixteen Doughty was apprenticed to a leather worker, and by 1814 he was listed in the Philadelphia directory as a...
1793 - 1856Anonymous02/12/2012
Dickinson, Preston 1889 - 1930Anonymous04/03/2012
Decker, Josephnotes
Although Joseph Decker never achieved an important artistic reputation during his lifetime, his varied career encompassed more than thirty productive years. Born to a carpenter and his wife in 1853 in Wurtemberg, Germany, Decker emigrated with his family to America at the age of fourteen. He was first apprenticed to a Brooklyn house painter, then...
1853 - 1924Anonymous04/07/2012
Durrie, George Henrynotes
Born in New Haven in 1820, the son of a Connecticut stationer, George Henry Durrie remained in that city virtually his entire life. Married to a choirmaster's daughter, Sarah Perkins, in 1841, he immersed himself in the quiet pursuits of family and church. While he never achieved the fame of the most renowned nineteenth century American landscape...
1820 - 1863Anonymous04/08/2012
Dodge, William DeLeftwich 1867 - 1935Anonymous04/10/2012
Dvorak, Franz 1862 - 1927Anonymous04/10/2012
Dickinson, Ansonnotes
Anson Dickinson, a painter of miniature portraits, was born in Milton, Connecticut, in 1779. He was the eldest of ten children born to Oliver Dickinson Junior (1757-1847) and Anna Landon Dickinson (1760-1849). As a boy, Anson Dickinson was apprenticed to Litchfield silversmith Isaac Thompson. Little else is known about his early art training. He first...
1779 - 1852Anonymous05/13/2012
Dabo, Leon 1868 - 1960Anonymous05/15/2012
Daingerfield, Elliott 1859 - 1932Anonymous05/15/2012
Dana, William Parsons Winchester 1833 - 1927Anonymous05/15/2012
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