Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Maentel, Jacob | ca. 1763 - 1863 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 | |
McMillan, Mary | 1895 - 1956 | Anonymous | 05/13/2012 | |
Mahon, Josephine | Born 1881 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
McIntyre, Grace Hamilton | 1878 - 1962 | Alexander Lusher | 03/24/2012 | |
MacDonall, Angus Peter | 1876 - 1927 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 | |
Morgan, Wallace | 1875 - 1948 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 | |
Mora, Francis Luis |
F. Luis Mora, also known as Francis Luis Mora (July 27, 1874 - June 5, 1940), was an Hispanic American figural painter. Mora worked in watercolor, oils and tempera. He produced drawings in pen and ink, and graphite; and etchings and monotypes. He is known for his paintings and drawings depicting American life in the early 20th century; Spanish life... | 1874 - 1940 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Mulhaupt, Frederick J. |
Frederick Mulhaupt was born in Rockport, Missouri, March 28, 1871 the
son of Jacob Mulhaupt of Baden and Margeret Liebig of Hesse-Darmstadt,
Germany. He grew up in the small town of Kiowa on the southern border of
Kansas, a wild unsettle Indian territory. The majority
of his professional career was spent in NYC, Boston and East Gloucester, MA.... | 1871 - 1938 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
Maurer, Alfred Henry |
Alfred
Henry Maurer (April 21, 1868 – August 4, 1932) was an American modernist
painter. He exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally and in
New York City during the early 20th century.
Biography
Maurer was
born in New York City. He was the son of German-born Louis Maurer, a
lithographer. At age sixteen, Maurer quit school to... | 1868 - 1932 | Anonymous | 11/19/2012 |
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 |
Myers, Jerome |
Jerome Myers (March 20, 1867 - June 19, 1940) was a U.S. artist and writer. Born in Petersburg, Virginia and raised in Philadelphia, Trenton and Baltimore, he spent his adult life in New York City. Jerome worked briefly as an actor and scene painter, then studied art at Cooper Union and the Art Students League where his main teacher was George de... | 1867 - 1940 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
MacCameron, Robert Lee | 1866 - 1912 | Anonymous | 11/05/2012 | |
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 |
Mottet, Jeanie Gallup | 1864 - 1934 | Anonymous | 07/28/2012 | |
Mielatz, Charles Frederick |
Charles Frederick William Mielatz was born in Bredding, Germany in 1864. He arrived in this country as a young boy and studied at the Chicago School of Design. Mostly self-taught, his first prints were large New England landscapes reminiscent of the painter- etcher school of American art. In 1889 he was invited by the Iconofiles Society to produce a... | 1864 - 1919 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
McCloskey, Alberta Binford |
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... | 1863 - 1911 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
MacMonnies, Frederick W. |
Frederick
William MacMonnies (September 28, 1863 – March 22, 1937) was the best
known expatriate American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school, as successful and
lauded in France as he was in the United States. He was also a highly
accomplished painter and portraitist.
He was born
in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York and died in New York... | 1863 - 1937 | Anonymous | 11/11/2012 |
Macomber, Mary | 1861 - 1916 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 | |
Mathews, Arthur Frank | 1860 - 1945 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
Melchers, Gari |
Gari
Melchers was born Julius Garibaldi (after the Italian patriot) Melchers in
Detroit on 11 August 1860, the son of a German immigrant Julius Theodore
Melchers and his wife Marie Bangetor. The senior
Melchers was himself an artist, having been trained in Paris as a sculptor. He
contributed decorations to the Crystal Palace in London, created... | 1860 - 1932 | Anonymous | 12/10/2012 |
Mowbray, H. Siddons |
Henry
Siddons Mowbray (August 5, 1858 – 1928) was an American artist.
Biography
He was born
of English parents at Alexandria, Egypt. Left an orphan, he was taken to
America by an uncle, who settled at North Adams, Massachusetts. After a year at
the United States Military Academy at West Point, he went to Paris and entered
the atelier of Leon... | 1858 - 1928 | Anonymous | 01/02/2013 |
Metcalf, Willard Leroy |
Willard Leroy Metcalf (July 1, 1858 – March 9, 1925) was an American artist born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attended Académie Julian, Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration, he became prominent as a landscape painter. He was one of the Ten American Painters who in... | 1858 - 1925 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Mohrmann, John Henry |
John Henry Mohrmann ( Estebrügge
( Germany ), 16 December 1857 - Bloomsbury ( Canada ), 22 February 1916 ) was
an American-Belgian-Canadian painter , specializing in ship portraits.
Genealogy
John Henry Mohrmann, born Johann Hinrich in Estebrügge Mohrmann, near Hannover (Germany). He was the son of Henry Mohrmann and Anna Meyer, the
family... | 1857 - 1916 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
Moeller, Louis Charles |
Charles
Louis Moeller specialized in interior genre scenes, or scenes of everyday life,
in which abundant, meticulously detailed objects and furnishings vie for
interest with lively dramatic anecdote played out by character types. Moeller
was a New York City native and received his first training in art from his
father, a German immigrant... | 1855 - 1930 | Anonymous | 06/10/2012 |
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 |
Murphy, John Francis |
John Francis Murphy (December 11, 1853 - January 30, 1921), American landscape painter.
Biography
He was born at Oswego, New York and first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1876, and was made an associate in 1885 and a full academician two years later. He became a member of the Society of American Artists (1901) and of the American... | 1853 - 1921 | 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 |
Millar, Addison Thomas | 1850 - 1913 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
Morrison, Hal | 1848 - 1927 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
Millet, Francis Davis |
Francis
Davis Millet (November 3, 1846 - April 15, 1912) was an American painter,
sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15,
1912.
Early life
Francis
Davis Millet was born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. At age sixteen, Millet
entered the Massachusetts regiment, first as a drummer boy and then a... | 1846 - 1912 | 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 |
Maynard, George Willoughby | 1843 - 1923 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
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 |
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 |
Moran, Peter | 1841 - 1914 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
Moore, Charles Herbert |
Artist,
professor, architectural historian and first Director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, Charles Herbert Moore was born on April
10, 1840 to Charles and Jane Maria Moore. He grew up in New York City, where he
attended public schools. Moore never attended college. He began a career as a
landscape painter in the 1850s, having studied at the... | 1840 - 1930 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Magrath, William |
Irish-American
watercolour painter, apparently named in the Chief
Constable's Special Branch Register:[1]
·
"McGrath,
William - suspicious Irishman at 57 Bedford Gardens"
·
"McGrath,
William - said to be connected to Whitechapel
murders".
Biography
William Magrath was born on 20 March 1838 at... | 1838 - 1913 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 |
Moran, Thomas |
Thomas
Moran (February 12, 1837 - August 25, 1926) from Bolton, England was an
American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose
work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family took residence in
New York where he obtained work as an artist. A talented illustrator and
exquisite colorist, Moran was hired as an... | 1837 - 1926 | Anonymous | 04/06/2012 |
Mount, Evelina | 1837 - 1920 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
Munger, Gilbert |
Gilbert
Davis Munger achieved great success in the nineteenth
century, painting landscapes of the newly discovered American West.
Biography
Gilbert
Davis Munger’s painting career can be divided
into three phases: artist-explorer painting the spectacular landscapes of
California, Oregon, Washington, and Utah; critically acclaimed... | 1837 - 1903 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Meucci, Anthony | Died 1837 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
Melrose, Andrew |
New Jersey
artist Andrew Melrose painted traditional, atmospheric landscapes inspired by
travels in Europe, South American and various regions of the United States.
Many of his best paintings are views of New York State and New Jersey,
especially regions of the Hudson River Valley and New York Harbor. Melrose
typically painted in an indigenous... | 1836 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Martin, Homer Dodge |
Homer Dodge
Martin (October 28, 1836 - February 2, 1897) was an American artist,
particularly known for his landscapes.
Biography
Martin was
born at Albany, New York. A pupil for a short time of William Hart, his earlier
work was closely aligned with the Hudson River School. He was elected as
associate of the National Academy of Design, New York,... | 1836 - 1897 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Mayer, Constant | 1832 - 1911 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
Mignot, Louis Remy |
The career
of Louis Rémy Mignot
defies easy categorization. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Mignot studied painting in the Netherlands, began his
professional career in the fold of the Hudson River School (specifically, in
the Tenth Street Studio Building), painted in the Andes alongside Frederic
Church, and experimented with European... | 1831 - 1870 | Anonymous | 11/19/2012 |
Marschall, Nicola |
Nicola Marschall (1829 – 1917) was a German-American artist
who supported the Confederate cause during the American Civil War. He designed
the original Confederate flag, the Stars and Bars,[1]
as well as the official grey uniform of the Confederate army.[2]
Biography
Marschall
was born in St. Wendel, Germany in 1829 to a wealthy
Prussian family... | 1829 - 1917 | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |