Artists
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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 |
Leighton, Nicholas Winfield Scott | ![]()
Nicholas
Winfield Scott Leighton was a painter whose last known address was Boston,
MA. He was mainly a painter of
animals, and it was only by raising and trading horses that he was able to
pursue his studies. He studied
under Harrison Bird Brown and opened a studio in Boston in 1874.
He
exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1883,... | 1847 - 1898 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Lenders, Emil W. | 1864 - 1934 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb | ![]()
Emanuel
Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816, Schwäbisch Gmünd – July 18,
1868) was a German American history painter best known for his painting
Washington Crossing the Delaware.
Biography
Philadelphia
Leutze was
born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg (Germany), and was brought
to America as a child. His parents settled first in Philadelphia,... | 1816 - 1868 | Anonymous | 05/14/2012 |
Lie, Jonas | ![]()
Jonas Lie
(April 29, 1880 - January 18, 1940) was a Norwegian-born American painter. He
is best known for colorful paintings of coastlines of New England and city
scenes New York City. [1]
Background
Jonas Lie
was born in Moss, in Østfold county, Norway. His father Sverre
Lie, was a civil Norwegian engineer and his mother Helen Augusta Steele,... | 1880 - 1940 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
Longpre, Paul de | ![]()
A famous
French and American flower painter, Paul de Longpre
was the most significant watercolor specialist to arrive in Los Angeles in the
late 19th century and became the city's first major still-life painter. It is
likely he was the first southern California painter to earn a major national
reputation.
He was born
in Lyons, France, where he was... | 1855 - 1911 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Lord, Caroline | 1860 - 1927 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
Lorenz, Richard | ![]()
While still
in his middle teens, Richard Lorenz studied sculpture in Germany. Later he
received an art scholarship (endowed by Franz Liszt) to attend the Academy of
Fine Arts in Weimar, Germany to study drawing. While there, he twice received
the school's highest award.
Lorenz was
recruited in Germany to come to America, and in the spring of... | 1858 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Low, William Hillock | ![]()
William
Hillock Low was a prominent force in the New York art world during the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known
primarily as a muralist, Low studied with the French neo-classicist painter,
Jean-Léon-Gérôme
during the 1870s. Although the artist created a number of works in the style of
his teacher, he eventually expanded his... | 1853 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Luks, George | ![]()
George
Benjamin Luks, (August 13, 1867–October 29, 1933) was an American realist
artist and illustrator. His vigorously painted genre paintings of urban
subjects are examples of the Ashcan school in American art.
Early life
Luks was
born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to Central European immigrants. His father
was a physician and his mother was... | 1866 - 1933 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |