Artists
Name | Info | Years
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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 |
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 |
Lungren, Fernand Harvey | ![]()
Painter and
illustrator Fernand Lungren
is best known for vibrantly colored images of the scenic wonders of the
American Southwest. Lungren was born in Hagerstown,
Maryland, but grew up in Toledo, Ohio. In 1876, he abandoned his studies in
mining engineering at the University of Michigan and went to Cincinnati. There,
painters Alfred Laurens... | 1857 - 1932 | 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 |
Lathrop, Ida Pulis | 1859 - 1937 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 | |
Lathrop, William Langson | 1859 - 1938 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
Lord, Caroline | 1860 - 1927 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
Lang, Charles Michael Angelo | 1860 - 1934 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
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 |
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 |