Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McLenan, John | 
John McLenan (1827-1865) was an influential and prolific illustrator whose works appeared nationally in books and periodicals from 1852 to 1866. According to legend, McLenan was sketching on a barrel head when he was “discovered” in 1848 by famed wood engraver DeWitt C. Hitchcock. The meeting resulted immediately in a new career for McLenan, who... | 1827 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| May, Edward Harrison | 1824 - 1887 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Maccallum, Andrew | 1821 - 1902 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
| Miller, George M. |
George M.
Miller was a stone-cutter, potter, and sculptor who often "modeled"
in wax. Among biographical sources there is disagreement about whether his
birthplace was Scotland or Germany, and about the original spelling of his last
name: Muller, Müller, or Miler. Nothing is known
about his family, education, or date of birth.
Miller had
come to... | Died 1819 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Miller, William Rickarby |
William was the son of the English landscape painter, Joseph Miller and most likely studied under him in England. In the winter of 1844, William immigrated to America and settled in New York City. He initially worked as a portraitist, but then began traveling across the Eastern U.S. to discover new landscape subjects. Throughout Miller’s prolific... | 1818 - 1893 | Anonymous | 03/04/2013 |
| Mellen, Mary Blood |
American
marine artist Mary Blood Mellen is most well known as
a collaborative artist and friend to American Luminist
master Fitz Henry Lane. Her known works are mostly of the greater Gloucester,
Massachusetts region, although she studied art early in Sterling, Mass. Married
at 21 to Rev. Charles Mellen in 1840, Mellen would visit family living in... | 1817 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Muller, Fritz |
Fritz Müller was born in 1814 in Blumenthal, a small town on
the Weser River in northern Germany. Trained as a seaman, Müller
became a sea captain and lived in neighboring Bremen after 1841. By that time
he apparently was married to a native of Hildenbrock,
a town near Dusseldorf. In 1848 Müller left
Bremen to give instruction in navigational... | 1814 - 1861 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Matteson, Tompkins Harrison |
Matteson,
Tompkins Harrison (May 9, 1813 - Feb. 2, 1884), historical and genre painter,
born at Peterboro, N. Y., is remembered chiefly for
his popular patriotic pictures, which were widely known through reproductions.
His father, an astute Democratic politician, named him for Governor Tompkins of
New York, and having been appointed deputy sheriff... | 1813 - 1884 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| McDougall, John Alexander | 1810 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Miller, Alfred Jacob |
Alfred
Jacob Miller (January 2, 1810 – June 26, 1874) was an American painter
and sketcher best known for his paintings concerning the northwestern United
States.
Life
Miller was
born in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended the local schools and hoped to become
a painter. He received his first lessons in art from Thomas Sully. After... | 1810 - 1874 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
