Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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Pennell, Joseph | 1857 - 1926 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
Phillips, Ammi | ![]()
Ammi
Phillips painted for more than fifty years, producing perhaps as many as two
thousand portraits in so many disparate styles that his works were once thought
to be by several different artists. Currently about five hundred works can be
attributed to him, most sharing the characteristics of plain backgrounds,
strongly contrasting light and dark... | 1788 - 1865 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
Post, William Merritt | 1856 - 1935 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
Potts, William Sherman | 1876 - 1930 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
Parshall, DeWitt | 1864 - 1956 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
Phillips, Jay Campbell | 1873 - 1948 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
Paul, Jeremiah | ![]()
Jeremiah
Paul ( fl 1795; d nr St Louis, MO, 13 July 1820). American painter. He was a minor yet versatile artist whose
career began in Philadelphia, PA, in the 1790s. The son of a Quaker
schoolmaster, Paul received his early training from Charles Willson
Peale and in 1795 participated in the founding of the Columbianum,
Peale's ill-fated attempt to... | 1775 - 1820 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
Pinney, Eunice | ![]()
Eunice Pinney is the earliest known American primitive
watercolorist. She was born into a large, wealthy family in Simsbury,
Connecticut. Well-educated, she and her seven siblings enjoyed performing plays
for neighbors, and Pinney's flair for drama surfaces
in the poses, gestures, and facial expressions of the people in her... | 1770 - 1849 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
Preston, James | 1873 - 1962 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
Pennington, Harper | ![]()
Harper
Pennington was born in Baltimore to a prominent Maryland family. After studying
drawing at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris with the
renowned teacher and artist Jean Leon GĂ©rome,
in 1880 he traveled to Munich, where the American artist Frank Duveneck's school was well known. Pennington was advised to
join Duveneck's winter art class in... | 1853 - 1920 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |