Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lungren, Fernand Harvey | 
Painter and
illustrator Fernand Lungren
is best known for vibrantly colored images of the scenic wonders of the
American Southwest. Lungren was born in Hagerstown,
Maryland, but grew up in Toledo, Ohio. In 1876, he abandoned his studies in
mining engineering at the University of Michigan and went to Cincinnati. There,
painters Alfred Laurens... | 1857 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Lamb, A.A. |
No
documents about A. A. Lamb or other paintings by him have been discovered. His
sympathetic treatment of the subject of the National Gallery's painting
Emancipation Proclamation (1955.11.10) suggests he was a Northerner, perhaps
from New York, where he could have known the Henry K. Brown statue of George
Washington used as a model for the figure... | Born 1864 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Leganger, Nikolay Tysland |
Little is
known of Leganger except that he was active in both
New York City and Boston. He
exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association between 1871 and 1882. He also exhibited at the National Academy
of Design in 1891, giving his address as Newton Center, MA. His work was represented at an important
sale of paintings at Noyes and Blakeslee in... | 1832 - 1905 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Laux, August |
German born
August Laux achieved a considerable reputation in the
1870s for his frescoes and decorative paintings, but switched to genre scenes
and still lifes a decade later. His work, always
traditional in style, was highly regarded in his day but forgotten soon after
his death.
He was born
in the Pfalz area of the Rhineland in 1847 to... | 1847 - 1921 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Lanman, Charles |
Charles
Lanman was an author, government official, artist, librarian, and explorer.
Early life and education
Charles
Lanman was born at Monroe, Michigan, on June 14, 1819, the son of Charles James
Lanman, and the grandson of United States Senator James Lanman.[1] Lanman's
early life included newspaper work as editor of the Monroe Gazette in... | 1819 - 1895 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Leslie, Charles Robert |
Charles
Robert Leslie (19 October 1794 – 5 May 1859), was an English genre
painter. Born in London, his parents were American, and when he was five years
of age he returned with them to their native country. They settled in
Philadelphia, where their son was educated and afterwards apprenticed to a
bookseller. He was, however, mainly interested in... | 1794 - 1859 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Lennep, Henry John Van |
Henry John
Van Lennep (AC 1837), a noted 19th-century Christian
minister, missionary, writer and educator, was born in Smyrna (present-day
Izmir, Turkey) in 1815. In 1830 he was sent to the United States for his
education. He prepared for college at Mount Pleasant Institute, Amherst, Mass.,
and Hartford (Conn.) Grammar School. After graduating from... | 1815 - 1889 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Lungkwitz, Hermann |
Hermann
Lungkwitz (1813–1891) was a 19th Century German-born Texas romantic
landscape artist and photographer whose work became the first pictoral record
of the Texas Hill Country.[1]
Early life
Karl
Friedrich Hermann Lungkwitz was born on March 14, 1813 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt
to hosiery manufacturer Johann Gottfried Lungkwitz and and his wife... | 1813 - 1891 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Lippincott, William |
Born in
Philadelphia, William Henry Lippincott was a painter of interiors, portraits,
landscapes, figure and genre scenes, who eventually settled in New York City
and taught at the National Academy of Design. He was also noted as a painter of
set designs including for "La Boheme" and
"Salambo", and as an illustrator.
Lippincott
attended the... | 1849 - 1920 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Lockwood, Wilton |
Wilton
Lockwood (September 12, 1861–March 21, 1914, age 52), American artist,
was born at Wilton, Connecticut. He was a pupil and an assistant of John
LaFarge, and also studied in Paris, becoming a well-known portrait and flower
painter. He became a member of the Society of American Artists (1898), and of
the Copley Society, Boston, and an... | 1861 - 1914 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
