Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan, Samuel | 
Only four
signed paintings by Samuel Jordan are known and few biographical facts have
been ascertained. The inscriptions on the verso of the National Gallery's
painting Eaton Family Memorial (1955.11.9) indicate that he was born in 1803 or
1804 and resided in Boston at some time in his life. From a diary kept by Isaac
Watts Merrill (1803-1878), we... | 1803 - 1831 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jarvis, Charles Wesley |
Charles
Wesley Jarvis, the second son of the portrait painter John Wesley Jarvis, was
born in New York City. His mother died the following year, and he and an older
brother, John, were raised by her relatives on Long Island. Jarvis' father
spent many years away from home working as an itinerant painter.
Jarvis
apparently received his earliest... | 1812 - 1868 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Johnson, Eastman |
Eastman Johnson (July 29, 1824 –
April 5, 1906) was an American painter, and Co-Founder of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. Best
known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his
portraits both of everyday people, he also painted portraits of prominent
Americans... | 1824 - 1906 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Johnson, David |
David
Johnson (May 10, 1827 – January 30, 1908) was a member of the second
generation of Hudson River School painters.
He was born
in New York City, New York. He studied for two years at the antique school of
the National Academy of Design. He also studied briefly with the Hudson River
artist Jasper Francis Cropsey. Along with John Frederick... | 1827 - 1908 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Judson, William Lees |
William
Lees Judson was a pioneering California Impressionist artist of many
talents. With his three sons, he
founded the Judson Stained Glass Studios in 1897, which are still in operation
in Los Angeles. He was founding
Dean of the USC College of Fine Arts, and an important mentor to many local
artists; he also served as the president of the... | 1842 - 1928 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| James, Frederick |
Frederick
E. James (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1845 – Percé,
Quebec, 17 July 1907) was an American artist. He was noted for his depictions
of 18th-century American life.
James
trained first at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later under the
famed French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Portraits
by him of Benjamin Franklin, Stephen... | 1845 - 1907 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| Jones, Hugh Bolton |
H. Bolton
Jones was an award winning landscape artist of the late nineteenth century,
whose paintings of pastoral scenes were widely exhibited in the United States
around the turn of the century.
Born in
1848 in Baltimore, Jones began his formal studies at the Maryland Institute. In
1865, he studied under Horace W. Robbins in New York City, and... | 1848 - 1927 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jacobsen, Antonio |
Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (November
2, 1850 – February 2, 1921) was a Danish-born American maritime artist
known as the "Audubon of Steam Vessels".[1]
Biography
Jacobsen
was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Jacobsen attended the Royal Academy of Design
before heading across the Atlantic Ocean.[1] He arrived in the United States in
1871 and... | 1850 - 1921 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| Jones, Seth Corbett | 1853 - 1930 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
| Jones, Francis Coates |
Throughout
a varied career that embraced mural painting and interior design as well as
easel painting, Francis Coates Jones pursued the perennial theme of women and
children in intimate settings. Jones was born in Baltimore, son of a successful
businessman. Although his older brother, Hugh Bolton Jones (1848–1927),
was a landscape painter,... | 1857 - 1932 | Anonymous | 06/18/2012 |
