Artists
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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 |
Morton, Henry Jackson | 1807 - 1890 | 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 |
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 |
Mottet, Jeanie Gallup | 1864 - 1934 | Anonymous | 07/28/2012 | |
Moulthrop, Reuben | 1763 - 1814 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
Mount, Evelina | 1837 - 1920 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
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 |
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 |
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 |