Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duyckinck, Gerrit | 1660 - ca. 1712 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Durand, John | 
John Durand's birth and death dates are unknown, and only a few of his portraits are signed and dated. The sketchy chronology of his life is based on these few signed works, as well as on account book entries and information about his sitters. Scholars place his first activity in Virginia in 1765, but by 1766 Durand was in New York City. In that year... | 1731 - 1805 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 |
| Dunlap, William |
The first historian of the American stage, William Dunlap was a passionate lover of the arts, a gifted painter, a tireless chronicler of his day and a writer of considerable charm. He wrote or adapted more than sixty plays. While subsequent scholarship has found a considerable number of innacuracies in his historical work, his first hand account of... | 1766 - 1839 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
| Doyle, William M. S. | William M.S. Doyle was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1769. His father was a British soldier, but Doyle seems to have lived and worked his entire life in Boston. Doyle was a silhouettist, artist of portraits of both full-size and miniature. He worked in silhouette cutting, watercolor, oil and pastel. His silhouettes were beautifully rendered in... | 1769 - 1828 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dubourjal, Savinien Edme | 1795 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Dickinson, Daniel | 1795 - 1877 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Durand, Asher Brown |
Asher Brown
Durand (August 21, 1796 – September 17, 1886) was an American painter of
the Hudson River School.
Early life
Durand was born
in and eventually died in Maplewood, New Jersey (then called Jefferson
Village), the eighth of eleven children; his father was a watchmaker and a
silversmith.
Durand was
apprenticed to an engraver from 1812... | 1796 - 1886 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| De Grailly, Victor | I. Biography
Little is known about the life of French artist Victor de Grailly, famous for his Hudson River School-style landscapes of the United States. Born in France in 1804, he studied with neo-classical painter Jean Victor Bertin, who also mentored the great Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
Surprisingly, it is unlikely that de Grailly ever traveled to... | 1804 - 1889 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
