Artists
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Doughty, Thomas | ![]()
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 - 1856 | Anonymous | 02/12/2012 |
Dickinson, Preston | 1889 - 1930 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 | |
Decker, Joseph | ![]()
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 - 1924 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 |
Durrie, George Henry | ![]()
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 - 1863 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
Dodge, William DeLeftwich | 1867 - 1935 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
Dvorak, Franz | 1862 - 1927 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
Dickinson, Anson | ![]()
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 - 1852 | Anonymous | 05/13/2012 |
Dabo, Leon | 1868 - 1960 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Daingerfield, Elliott | 1859 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Dana, William Parsons Winchester | 1833 - 1927 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |