Artists
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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 |
Mack, Ebenezer | Died 1808 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
Morton, Henry Jackson | 1807 - 1890 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
Mount, William Sidney | ![]()
William
Sidney Mount (November 26, 1807 – November 19, 1868) was an American
genre painter and contemporary of the Hudson River School.
Mount was
born in Setauket, New York and trained at the National Academy of Design in New
York. Although he started as a history painter, Mount moved to depicting scenes
from everyday life. Two of his more... | 1807 - 1868 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 |
Miller, Samuel | 1807 - 1853 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
Marchant, Edward D. | 1806 - 1887 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
Mayr, Christian | 1805 - 1851 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 | |
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 |
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 |
Morse, Samuel F.B. | ![]()
Samuel
Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American
contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on
European telegraphs, co-inventor of the Morse code, and an accomplished
painter.
Birth and education
Samuel F.B.
Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child of the pastor Jedidiah... | 1791 - 1872 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |