Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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| Mount, Shepard Alonzo | 
Shepard
Alonzo Mount was born in 1804 in the Long Island village of Setauket, one of
five children. His younger brother William Sidney Mount would become one of the
most acclaimed artists of his age. With Mount’s father’s death in
1814, his mother moved the family to the parental farm in Stony Brook. Shepard began his professional career... | 1804 - 1868 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Morton, Henry Jackson | 1807 - 1890 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Malbone, Edward Greene |
Edward
Greene Malbone was one of the leading miniaturist
painters in early American art. Malbone was born
illegitimate and went by the name “Greene,” his mothers
name for most of his life until the court mandated that he could use his
fathers’ name, “Malbone.” Born in
Newport, Rhode Island, Malbone cultivated a love for
the arts as a... | 1777 - 1807 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Merritt, Anna Lea |
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 - 1930 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Moser, James Henry |
Born January 1, 1854, in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. His father was an architect. Moved with the family to Columbus, Ohio, 1864. Studied and associated with artists John H. Witt, Frederick S. Church, Frank Miller, and Professor Schroeder. Studied at the Art Students League of New York with Charles H. Davis. In Toledo, Ohio, 1875–77, and visited,... | 1854 - 1913 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Miller, Alfred Jacob |
Alfred
Jacob Miller (January 2, 1810 – June 26, 1874) was an American painter
and sketcher best known for his paintings concerning the northwestern United
States.
Life
Miller was
born in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended the local schools and hoped to become
a painter. He received his first lessons in art from Thomas Sully. After... | 1810 - 1874 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| McConnell, George |
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... | 1852 - 1929 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Mark, George Washington |
George Washington Mark, sometimes called "Count Mark" or "The Count", was born in Charlestown, New Hampshire, in 1795, one of seven children of John and Hannah Mark. Mark may have served on a schooner before settling in the Connecticut Valley town of Greenfield, Massachusetts, in 1817. Shortly after his arrival there, he married his first wife, Mary... | 1795 - 1879 | 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 |
| Matteson, Tompkins Harrison |
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 - 1884 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
