Artists

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Matteson, Tompkins Harrisonnotes
Matteson, Tompkins Harrison (May 9, 1813 - Feb. 2, 1884), historical and genre painter, born at Peterboro, N. Y., is remembered chiefly for his popular patriotic pictures, which were widely known through reproductions. His father, an astute Democratic politician, named him for Governor Tompkins of New York, and having been appointed deputy sheriff...
1813 - 1884Anonymous05/18/2012
Maurer, Alfred Henrynotes
Alfred Henry Maurer (April 21, 1868 – August 4, 1932) was an American modernist painter. He exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally and in New York City during the early 20th century. Biography Maurer was born in New York City. He was the son of German-born Louis Maurer, a lithographer. At age sixteen, Maurer quit school to...
1868 - 1932Anonymous11/19/2012
Mayer, Frank Blackwellnotes
Francis Blackwell Mayer (December 27, 1827 – December 5, 1899) was a prominent 19th century American genre painter from Maryland. While he spent most of his life in that state, he took a trip to the western frontier in the mid-nineteenth century and executed a series of drawings of Native Americans; he also studied in Paris for five years in the...
1827 - 1899Anonymous10/30/2012
Mayhew, Frederick W.notes
A native of the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Frederick W. Mayhew was born in Chilmark on 6 July 1785. Although Mayhew has been known for some time through his works, several of them signed, the biographical details of his life eluded scholars until recently. Difficulty arose from his misidentification as Nathaniel Mayhew and confusion...
1785 - 1854Anonymous05/18/2012
McEntee, Jervisnotes
Jervis McEntee (July 14, 1828 – January 27, 1891) was an American painter of the Hudson River School. He is a somewhat lesser-known figure of the 19th century American art world, but was the close friend and traveling companion of several of the important Hudson River School artists. Aside from his paintings, McEntee's detailed journals are an...
1828 - 1891Anonymous05/18/2012
Mellen, Mary Bloodnotes
American marine artist Mary Blood Mellen is most well known as a collaborative artist and friend to American Luminist master Fitz Henry Lane. Her known works are mostly of the greater Gloucester, Massachusetts region, although she studied art early in Sterling, Mass. Married at 21 to Rev. Charles Mellen in 1840, Mellen would visit family living in...
1817 - 1882Anonymous05/18/2012
Melrose, Andrewnotes
New Jersey artist Andrew Melrose painted traditional, atmospheric landscapes inspired by travels in Europe, South American and various regions of the United States. Many of his best paintings are views of New York State and New Jersey, especially regions of the Hudson River Valley and New York Harbor. Melrose typically painted in an indigenous...
1836 - 1901Anonymous05/18/2012
Merritt, Anna Leanotes
Anna Lea Merritt (born 13 September 1844 in Philadelphia , died. 7 April 1930 in Hurstbourne Tarrant, in the county of Hampshire ) - American artist active in England . Dealt with the oil painting and decoration, created etchings and murals , was also a writer and publicist. She was born in a wealthy Philadelphia family of Quakers , her father was an...
1844 - 1930Anonymous05/18/2012
Mielatz, Charles Fredericknotes
Charles Frederick William Mielatz was born in Bredding, Germany in 1864. He arrived in this country as a young boy and studied at the Chicago School of Design. Mostly self-taught, his first prints were large New England landscapes reminiscent of the painter- etcher school of American art. In 1889 he was invited by the Iconofiles Society to produce a...
1864 - 1919Anonymous05/18/2012
Mignot, Louis Remynotes
The career of Louis Rémy Mignot defies easy categorization. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Mignot studied painting in the Netherlands, began his professional career in the fold of the Hudson River School (specifically, in the Tenth Street Studio Building), painted in the Andes alongside Frederic Church, and experimented with European...
1831 - 1870Anonymous11/19/2012
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