Artists
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| Prang, Louis |  Louis Prang (March 12, 1824 – September 14, 1909) was an American printer, lithographer and publisher. He is sometimes known as the "father of the American Christmas card".
Youth
Prang was born in Breslau in Prussian Silesia. His father Jonas Louis Prang was a textile manufacturer and of French Huguenot origin. Because of health problems as a boy,... | 1824 - 1909 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Peale, Raphaelle |
Raphaelle
Peale (sometimes spelled Raphael Peale) (February 17, 1774 – March 4,
1825) is considered the first professional American painter of still-life.
Biography
Peale was
born in Annapolis, Maryland, the fifth child, though eldest surviving, of the
painter Charles Willson Peale and his first wife
Rachel Brewer. He grew up in Philadelphia,... | 1774 - 1825 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
| Powell, William Henry |
William
Henry Powell (1823 - 1879), was an American artist from Ohio.
Powell is
known for a painting of the Battle of Lake Erie, of which one copy hangs in the
Ohio state capitol building and the other, in the United States Capitol. Powell
has a second piece of artwork displayed in the United States Capitol Rotunda,
the Discovery of the... | 1823 - 1879 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
| Paskell, William F. | William F. Paskell was born in London and moved to Boston in 1872 with his family. By the age of twenty-one he was already mentioned in the press as a very promising artist, with his paintings hanging beside the work of Childe Hassam and John J. Enneking in the annual Boston Art Club exhibitions. Paskell married in 1900 and by 1905 had four... | 1866 - 1951 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 |
| Perry, Lilla Cabot |
Lilla
Cabot Perry (January 13, 1848—February 28, 1933) was an American artist
who worked in the Impressionist style, rendering portraits and landscapes in
the free form manner of her mentor, Claude Monet. Perry was an early advocate
of the French Impressionist style and contributed to its reception in the
United States. Perry's early work was... | 1848 - 1933 | Anonymous | 12/21/2012 |
| Potthast, Edward Henry |
Edward
Henry Potthast (June 10, 1857 – March 9, 1927)
was an American Impressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of people
at leisure in Central Park, and on the beaches of New York and New England.[1]
Life and work
He was born
in Cincinnati, Ohio. From June 10, 1879 to March 9, 1881 he studied with Thomas
Satterwhite Noble. He later... | 1857 - 1927 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 |
| Peckham, Robert | 1785 - 1877 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 | |
| Phillips, Clarence Coles | 1880 - 1927 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 | |
| Peale, Anna Claypoole |
(b Philadelphia, PA, 6 March 1791; d Philadelphia, PA, 25 Dec
1878). Miniature painter, daughter of (2) James Peale.
She was instructed by her father. Her first attempt, a fruit piece, was
exhibited in 1811 at the Society of Artists in Philadelphia. From 1820 to 1840
she was a popular miniature painter, known for the accuracy of her likenesses
and... | 1791 - 1878 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Pyle, Howard |
Howard Pyle
(March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and
author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware,
he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.
During 1894
he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and
Industry (now Drexel University), and after... | 1853 - 1911 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
