Artists

George McConnell was born in Steubenville, OH in 1852 and died in Portland, ME in 1929.  He studied portraiture in Philadelphia and New York.   He also studied landscape painting with George Inness and continue his art training at the Academy Julien in Paris. In 1883, at the age of thirty-one, McConnell settled in Portland, Maine.  He did...

In early June 1884, William and Alberta, with two-month-old Eleanor, arrived in Los Angeles for a visit with the Binford family. "Mr. McCloskey is an artist of some note and is now making his first visit to the Pacific Coast. Should he find a suitable opening, we understand he will take up his residence in our city."[17] By 1884, the Binford family...

Joseph Rusling Meeker (born in Newark, New Jersey, 21 April 1827; died in St. Louis, Missouri, 27 September 1887) was a United States painter. Biography He studied at the National Academy of Design in 1845-46, and exhibited at the American Art Union in 1849-50, the Academy of Design in 1867, and the Boston Art Club in 1877. His studio was at St....

MOÏSE, THEODORE SYDNEY (1808–1883), U.S. painter; grandson of Abraham *Moïse. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he received instruction in painting from his aunt, Penina *Moïse, a part-time artist. Nothing is known about his further education. In 1835, Moïse opened a studio in Charleston, advertising his services as a portrait...