Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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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 |
Lathrop, Ida Pulis | 1859 - 1937 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 | |
Lathrop, William Langson | 1859 - 1938 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
Latrobe, John Hazelhurst Boneval | 1803 - 1891 | 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 |
Lawson, Ernest |
Ernest
Lawson (March 22, 1873 – December 18, 1939) was a Canadian-American
painter and a member of The Eight, a group of artists which included the
group's leaders Robert Henri, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, Arthur B. Davies,
Maurice Prendergast, George Luks, and William J. Glackens. Though Lawson mostly
painted landscapes, he also did some... | 1873 - 1939 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Lawson, Thomas Bayley |
Thomas Bayley Lawson (January 13, 1807–1888) was an American
painter.
Early life and education
Thomas was
born in Newburyport, Massachusetts on January 13, 1807 to father William Lawson
and mother Frances Lawson. He worked his way up in the dry goods industry,
first as a clerk they up to having his own store at
the age of 21. Also having a... | 1807 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Lazarus, Jacob Hart | 1822 - 1891 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 | |
LeClear, Thomas |
Thomas LeClear was born in the village of Candor, near Oswego, in
upstate New York, and demonstrated an early interest in painting. According to
Henry T. Tuckerman's Book of the Artists, first published in 1867, LeClear, at the age of twelve, completed a painting of
Saint Matthew, which was so admired by his neighbors that they were willing to
pay... | 1818 - 1882 | 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 |