Artists
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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 |
Lewis, Edmund Darch | ![]() Edmund Darch Lewis (October 17, 1835 - August 12, 1910) was an American landscape painter known for his prolific style and marine oils and watercolors. Lewis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a well-to-do family. He started training at age 15 with German-born Paul Weber (1823–1916) of the Hudson River School.[1] At age 19 he exhibited at the... | 1835 - 1910 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 |
Lindsay, Thomas Corwin | ![]() Lindsay was know as a landscape and animal painter, although he was also known to have done portraits. He resided in Cincinnati, OH and was active from 1860 He studied in Dusseldorf in the 1860s. Lindsay exhibited at the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition (1870-1883), Pogue's (1875), and the Art Institute of Chicago (1896). His works are in the... | 1845 - 1907 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
Landis, John | 1805 - 1851 | Anonymous | 04/13/2012 | |
Lathrop, Ida Pulis | 1859 - 1937 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |