Artists

Name
InfoYearsUpdated byDate
Jacobsen, Antonionotes
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 - 1921Anonymous04/02/2012
Jacobs, Paul Emilnotes
Paul Emil Jacobs (August 20, 1802, in Gotha - January 6, 1866) was a German painter. Jacobs, son of the philologist Frederick Jacobs, received his art training at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and first became known for his painting of Mercury and Argus (from Classical mythology). In 1824 he went to Rome, where he attracted great critical...
1802 -  1866Anonymous04/02/2012
James, Fredericknotes
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 - 1907Anonymous04/11/2012
Jamieson, Bernice Evelynnotes
An artist and teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1940, Bernice Jamieson was also a curator of New Jersey painters for the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton from the mid 1940s to the 1960s. Source: Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"
1898 - 1977Anonymous05/17/2012
Jarvis, Charles Wesleynotes
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 - 1868Anonymous05/17/2012
Jarvis, John Wesleynotes
Although born in England in 1780, John Wesley Jarvis was the son of an American mariner who moved his family back to the United States by the mid-1780s. At the end of that decade, the Jarvises settled in Philadelphia, where the artist spent his childhood and began his artistic training. He is known to have frequented the studio of the aging Matthew...
1780 - 1840Anonymous05/17/2012
Jay, Cecil 1884 - 1930Anonymous04/02/2012
Jefferys, Charles Williamnotes
Charles William Jefferys (August 25, 1869 – October 8, 1951) was a Canadian painter, illustrator, author, and teacher best known as a historical illustrator. Biography Born in Rochester, England, Jefferys arrived in Toronto, Ontario (after living in Philadelphia and Hamilton, Ontario) with his family around 1880. After attending school, he...
1869 - 1951Anonymous12/22/2012
Jennys, Williamnotes
William Jennys (1774–1859), also known as J. William Jennys, was an American primitive portrait painter who was active from about 1790 to 1810. He traveled throughout New England seeking commissions in rural areas and small towns. His early works are characterized by broadly modeled faces with a minimum of costume detail and bare backgrounds....
1774 - 1858Anonymous04/02/2012
Jewett, Williamnotes
A painter of portraits, landscapes, and works of genre, or scenes of everyday life, William Smith Jewett became California’s first resident professional artist. Jewett was born near South Dover, New York, and he studied at New York City’s prestigious National Academy of Design. He established a portrait-painting practice in New York in 1833; in...
1792 - 1874Anonymous05/17/2012
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