Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
