Artists
Name | Info | Years
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Mead, F. A. | Active ca. 1870 | Anonymous | 12/24/2012 | |
Mare, John | 1739 - 1803 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
Moulthrop, Reuben | 1763 - 1814 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
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 |
Mayhew, Frederick W. | ![]()
A native of the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Frederick W. Mayhew was born in Chilmark on 6 July 1785. Although Mayhew has been known for some time through his works, several of them signed, the biographical details of his life eluded scholars until recently. Difficulty arose from his misidentification as Nathaniel Mayhew and confusion... | 1785 - 1854 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
MacKay, Mac Raboy | Born 1791 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Mayr, Christian | 1805 - 1851 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |