Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lehr, Adam | 1853 - 1924 | 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 |
| Low, Bertha Lea | Born 1848 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| La Farge, John |
John La Farge (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was an
American painter, muralist, stained glass window maker, decorator, and writer.
Biography
LaFarge
was born in New York City to wealthy French parents and was raised bilingually.[1] His interest in art began during his training at Mount
St. Mary's University[2] and St. John's College (now... | 1835 - 1910 | Anonymous | 06/08/2012 |
| 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 |
