Artists
Name | Info
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Kidd, Joseph Bartholomew | ![]()
Kidd was
born in 1808, perhaps in Edinburgh. Nothing is known of his parentage or
education, but he became a pupil of the Reverend John Thomson of Duddingston. He was a founder Associate of the Royal
Scottish Academy in 1826 and was elected a full Academician in 1829. In 1830 he
was commissioned by John James Audubon to paint copies of one hundred... | 1808 - 1889 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
Krimmel, John Lewis | ![]()
John Lewis Krimmel (May 30, 1786-July 15, 1821), sometimes called "the American Hogarth" was America's first painter of genre scenes. Born in Germany, he emigrated to Philadelphia in 1809 and soon became a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Initially influenced by Scotland's David Wilkie, England's William Hogarth and America's... | 1787 - 1821 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
Kittell, Nicholas Biddle | ![]()
Groce and
Wallace listed Nicholas Biddle Kittell as a landscape
as well as a portrait artist. He
first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1847, giving his address
as Norwich, NY. He continued to
exhibit at the National Academy of Design during the period 1857 to 1891. He exhibited at the Brooklyn Art
Association during the period... | 1822 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Kirchner, Raphael | ![]()
Kirchner
was born in Vienna in 1876 and later moved to Paris. He drew for La Vie
Parisienne together with artists like Mucha, all of whom were greatly
influenced by the work of British artist Aubrey Beardsley, who had created an
'art nouveau' style of his own. Mucha went on to concentrate on posters and
Kirchner was drawing for postcards by 1901.... | 1876 - 1917 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Kaufmann, Theodor | ![]()
Theodore Kaufmann (December 18, 1814 Uelzen, Germany - 1896 New York City) was an artist who worked mostly in the United States.
Biography
He served for several years as a mercantile apprentice. He studied painting in Düsseldorf with Peter von Cornelius, in Munich with Wilhelm von Kaulbach,[1] and also in Hamburg and Dresden. He took part in the... | 1814 - 1896 | Anonymous | 10/14/2012 |
Kurz & Allison Art Publishers | ![]() Kurz and Allison were a major publisher of chromolithographs in the late 19th century. Based at 267-269 Wabash Avenue in Chicago, they built their reputation on large prints published in the mid-1880s depicting battles of the American Civil War. This was a period of recollection among veterans, and the company was trying to capitalise of this... | Active ca. 1888 - 1890 | Anonymous | 11/05/2012 |
King, Samuel | 1748 - 1819 | Anonymous | 04/30/2012 | |
Kuemmel, Cornelia | 1863 - 1938 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
Kennedy, David Johnson | 1816 - 1898 | Anonymous | 05/02/2012 | |
Koch, Johann Carl | 1806 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |