Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnston, William | 1732 - 1772 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
| Johnston, John | 
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 - 1818 | Anonymous | 04/06/2012 |
| Johnson, Joshua |
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 - 1824 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jennys, William |
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 - 1858 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| Jarvis, John Wesley |
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 - 1840 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jouett, Matthew Harris |
Matthew Harris Jouett was born April 22, 1788, near Harrodsburg, in what became Mercer County, Kentucky. Except for a few trips outside the state in search of commissions, he would reside virtually all of his life in Kentucky. His father, Captain Jack Jouett, was known as the "Paul Revere of the South" in honor of his 1781 ride warning Southern... | 1788 - 1827 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| Jewett, William |
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 - 1874 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jocelyn, Nathaniel |
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 - 1881 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Johnston, David Claypoole |
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 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jacobs, Paul Emil |
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 - 1866 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
