Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lathrop, Ida Pulis | 1859 - 1937 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 | |
| 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 |
| Lang, Louis |
American
painter of historical, literary and portrait subjects, Louis Lang was born in
Wurtemberg, Germany into an artistic family. At the age of 16, he was already
producing accomplished pastels. He began his art studies in Stuttgart and later
worked in Paris before he immigrated to the United States in 1838. He settled
in Philadelphia and from... | 1814 - 1893 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Lang, Charles Michael Angelo | 1860 - 1934 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Lang, Annie Traquair | 1885 - 1918 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Lane, Fitz Hugh |
Fitz Henry
Lane (born Nathaniel Rogers Lane, also known as Fitz Hugh Lane) (December 19,
1804 – August 14, 1865) was an American painter and printmaker of a style
that would later be called Luminism, for its use of
pervasive light.
Biography
Fitz Henry
Lane was born on December 19, 1804, in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Lane was... | 1804 - 1865 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 |
| Landis, John | 1805 - 1851 | Anonymous | 04/13/2012 | |
| Lambdin, James Reid |
James Reid Lambdin was born in Pittsburgh on May 10, 1807. His
father's death in 1812 left his family in difficult financial straits, so at
age twelve Lambdin left school to work in a
bookstore. There he studied art instruction books and taught himself to draw.
After seeing a reproduction of one of Gilbert Stuart's portraits of George
Washington,... | 1807 - 1889 | Anonymous | 04/13/2012 |
| Lambdin, George Cochran |
Born in Pittsburgh on January 6, 1830 and the son of James Lambdin. In the late 1830’s his family moved to Philadelphia and by 1849 George was exhibiting his first works at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1850 the family move to Germantown, just north of Philadelphia, and it was here that they would remain.
George traveled to Europe to... | 1830 - 1896 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| 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 |
