Artists
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Marcius-Simons, Pinckney | ![]()
Most
scholars list Pinckney Marcius-Simons' birth date as
1867, but some art historians assert that he was born in 1865. A New York City
native, visionary symbolist painter Pinckney Marcius-Simons
spent most of his adult life in Europe, having been taken there as a baby by
his parents. He did not return until he was age 25. He was especially known... | 1865 - 1909 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Murphy, Nelly Littlehale | ![]()
Born 1867,
died ca. 1942. Painter, illustrator, and etcher, noted for her watercolor
paintings of landscapes and flowers. Lived and exhibited in the Massachusetts
area. Nellie Littlehale married Herman Daniel Umbstaetter in 1893. In 1916, she married
again, to painter Hermann Dudley Murphy.
| 1867 - 1941 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Mosler, Henry | ![]()
Henry Mosler’s highly detailed scenes of peasant life in
the rural villages of the French province of Brittany appealed to his
contemporary American viewers for their material specificity and universal
themes. Mosler was a native of Silesia, Germany (now
Poland), son of a German-Jewish lithographic artist
who brought his family to the United... | 1841 - 1920 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Muller, Fritz | ![]()
Fritz Müller was born in 1814 in Blumenthal, a small town on
the Weser River in northern Germany. Trained as a seaman, Müller
became a sea captain and lived in neighboring Bremen after 1841. By that time
he apparently was married to a native of Hildenbrock,
a town near Dusseldorf. In 1848 Müller left
Bremen to give instruction in navigational... | 1814 - 1861 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Morrison, Hal | 1848 - 1927 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
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 |
McMillan, Mary | 1895 - 1956 | Anonymous | 05/13/2012 | |
Mader, Louis | ![]()
Louis Mader was born in Germany in 1842 and came to the United
States in 1867, during a period when the almshouses were filling with recent
immigrants. He was first admitted to the Berks County Almshouse in 1892 and
over the next three years painted at least eight views of that institution.
Unlike Charles Hofmann, the best-known "Pennsylvania... | 1842 - 1899 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
Moise, Theodore Sidney | ![]()
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... | 1808 - 1885 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
Meucci, Anthony | Died 1837 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |