Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mellen, Mary Blood | 
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 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Miller, William Rickarby |
William was the son of the English landscape painter, Joseph Miller and most likely studied under him in England. In the winter of 1844, William immigrated to America and settled in New York City. He initially worked as a portraitist, but then began traveling across the Eastern U.S. to discover new landscape subjects. Throughout Miller’s prolific... | 1818 - 1893 | Anonymous | 03/04/2013 |
| Miller, George M. |
George M.
Miller was a stone-cutter, potter, and sculptor who often "modeled"
in wax. Among biographical sources there is disagreement about whether his
birthplace was Scotland or Germany, and about the original spelling of his last
name: Muller, Müller, or Miler. Nothing is known
about his family, education, or date of birth.
Miller had
come to... | Died 1819 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Maccallum, Andrew | 1821 - 1902 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
| May, Edward Harrison | 1824 - 1887 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| McLenan, John |
John McLenan (1827-1865) was an influential and prolific illustrator whose works appeared nationally in books and periodicals from 1852 to 1866. According to legend, McLenan was sketching on a barrel head when he was “discovered” in 1848 by famed wood engraver DeWitt C. Hitchcock. The meeting resulted immediately in a new career for McLenan, who... | 1827 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Mayer, Frank Blackwell |
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 - 1899 | Anonymous | 10/30/2012 |
| Meeker, Joseph Rusling |
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.... | 1827 - 1889 | Anonymous | 07/28/2012 |
| McEntee, Jervis |
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 - 1891 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Moran, Edward |
Edward
Moran (19 Aug. 1829-9 June 1901), painter, was born in Bolton, Lancashire,
England, the son of Thomas Moran and Mary Higson, home handloom weavers. Edward
was the elder brother of the painters Peter, John, and Thomas Moran. Moran
joined his parents working at the handloom at an early age. The Moran parents,
like other home textile workers of... | 1829 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/13/2012 |
