Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kensett, John Frederick | 
John
Frederick Kensett (March 22, 1816 in Cheshire, Connecticut - December 14, 1872
in New York City) was an American artist and engraver. He attended school at
Cheshire Academy, and studied engraving with his immigrant father, Thomas
Kensett, and later with his uncle, Alfred Dagget. He
worked as engraver in the New Haven area until about 1838,... | 1816 - 1872 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| Keith, William |
William
Keith (November 18, 1838 – April 13, 1911) was a Scottish-American
painter famous for his California landscapes.
Early life
Keith was
born in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire,
Scotland, and emigrated to the United States in 1850.
He lived in New York City, and became an apprentice wood engraver in 1856. He
first traveled to the American West... | 1838 - 1911 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Kemmelmeyer, Frederick |
Census
records indicate that Frederick Kemmelmeyer was more
than forty-five years old in 1800, and therefore born sometime prior to 1755,
but no record of his birth has been found. A Frederick Kimmelmeiger
listed in naturalization papers issued at Annapolis, Maryland, on 8 October
1788 is presumed to be the artist. He first advertised in the... | 1755 - 1821 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Kendall, William Sergeant |
In Stones
of Venice John Ruskin wrote, "what we want art to do for us is to stay
what is fleeting . . immortalize
the things that have no duration." [1] In large part, that is what has led
Americans to rediscover the art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when artists believed that legitimate art could
be created from the... | 1869 - 1938 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Key, John Ross |
John Ross
Key was the grandson of Francis Scott Key, author of the patriotic song The
Star Spangled Banner. He was born
in Hagerstown, Maryland in 1832 and studied art in Munich and Paris. He worked in a number of American cities
including Boston where he showed over 100 works in 1877. Critics praised his work as "firm
and masterly, strong... | 1832 - 1920 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| King, Charles Bird |
Charles
Bird King (1785–1862) is a United States artist who is best known for his
portraiture. In particular, the artist is notable for the portraits he painted
of Native American delegates coming to Washington D.C., which were commissioned
by government's Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Biography
Charles
Bird King was born in Newport, Rhode Island... | 1785 - 1862 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| King, Samuel | 1748 - 1819 | Anonymous | 04/30/2012 | |
| Knapp, Charles W. |
Charles
Wilson Knapp was a noted landscape artist of great ability. He was born in Philadelphia in 1823 and
spent most of his life in that city.
He worked primarily in Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, the
Susquehanna River Valley, the area around the Delaware Water Gap, and the
Berkshire Mountains. He especially
enjoyed painting... | 1823 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Knight, Daniel Ridgway |
Daniel
Ridgway Knight's works represent so many aspects of Nineteenth Century
painting, including history, genre, landscape, portrait, and floral themes. In
each work, all that is aesthetic is recorded with fine detail and skill.
In order to
faithfully record the scenery, Knight studied the different phases of the day
and their effects on the... | 1839 - 1924 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Koehler, Robert |
Robert
Koehler (November 28, 1850 - April 23, 1917) was a German-born painter and art
teacher who spent most of his career in the United States of America.
Biography
Koehler was
born in Hamburg; his family spelled their name Köhler until they moved to
Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1854. There he attended the historic German-English
Academy. He... | 1850 - 1917 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
