Artists

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Jocelyn, Nathanielnotes
Nathaniel Jocelyn (January 31, 1796 - January 13, 1881) was an American painter. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of a clockmaker and engraver. He trained as a watchmaker, later taking up drawing, engraving, and oil painting. He studied engraving with George Munger around 1813: they published at least one print together under the...
1796 - 1881Anonymous05/17/2012
Johnson, Frank Tenneynotes
Frank Tenney Johnson (26 June 1874–1 January 1939) was a painter of the american west, and he popularized a style of painting cowboys which became known as "The Johnson Moonlight Technique". Somewhere on the Range is an example of Johnson's moonlight technique. To paint his paintings he used knives, fingers and brushes. Biography Early...
1874 - 1939Anonymous05/17/2012
Johnson, Joshuanotes
Joshua Johnson (c.1763-c.1824) was an American biracial painter from the Baltimore area. Johnson, often viewed as the first person of color to make a living as a painter in the United States, is known for his naïve paintings of prominent Maryland residents. Mysterious life It was not until 1939 that the identity of the painter of elite 19th...
1763 - 1824Anonymous05/17/2012
Johnston, Johnnotes
John Johnston was born in Boston c. 1753, the son of engraver and decorative painter Thomas Johnston (c. 1708-1767). Of four brothers who became painters, John Johnston was the most talented. He was apprenticed after his father's death to coach and heraldic painter John Gore. In 1773 he joined his brother-in-law Daniel Rea, Jr. in the painting firm...
1753 - 1818Anonymous04/06/2012
Jones, Francis Coatesnotes
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 - 1932Anonymous06/18/2012
Jones, Hugh Boltonnotes
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 - 1927Anonymous05/17/2012
Jordan, Samuelnotes
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 - 1831Anonymous05/17/2012
Judson, William Leesnotes
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 - 1928Anonymous05/17/2012
Johnston, David Claypoolenotes
David Claypoole Johnston (25 March 1798 – 8 November 1865) was an 19th-century American cartoonist, printmaker, painter and actor from Boston, Massachusetts. He was the first natively trained American to master all the various graphic arts processes of lithography, etching, metal plate engraving, and wood engraving.[1][2] In 1815 Johnston has...
1799 -  1865Anonymous05/17/2012
Johnston, Henriettanotes
Henrietta de Beaulieu Dering Johnston (ca. 1674[1] – March 9, 1729) was a pastelist of uncertain origin active in the English colonies in North America from approximately 1708 until her death. She is both the earliest recorded female artist and the first known pastelist working in the English colonies.[2] Life Both the date and place of...
ca. 1674 - 1729Anonymous04/21/2012
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