Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmer, Frances Flora | 
"Fanny" Palmer is best known for her illustrations of American life for Currier and Ives. Born in England, she was educated in London. In the early 1840s, she and her husband immigrated to the United States, settling in New York City.
Palmer had studied art and soon found work as an illustrator specializing in lithography. By 1849 she was working for... | 1812 - 1876 | Anonymous | 07/28/2012 |
| Peale, Harriet Cany | 1800 - 1869 | Anonymous | 05/10/2012 | |
| Park, Linton |
Linton
Park, the ninth and last child of John and Mary (Lang) Park, was born on 16
November 1826 in Marion (now Marion Center), a small town in western
Pennsylvania which was originally settled in 1799 by Park's grandfather. Little
is known about Linton Park's early life, but it is generally assumed that he
worked in his father's gristmill as a... | 1826 - 1906 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Partridge, Nehemiah |
In 1980
Mary Black proposed that Nehemiah Partridge may be the anonymous artist
recognized variously by the appellations "Schuyler Limner" and "Aetatis Suae Limner".
Nehemiah
Partridge, one of four members of his family known to have borne this name, was
one of five children of Col. William Partridge (c. 1652-1728) and Mary Brown,
who were married... | 1683 - 1737 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Palmer, Walter Launt |
Walter Launt Palmer was the nineteenth century’s most
celebrated painter of snow scenes. The son of the sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer,
Walter was surrounded by great art and artists at an early age. He trained with
the noted Hudson River School landscapist Frederic Church and exhibited at the
National Academy of Design before embarking on a... | 1854 - 1932 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
| Paxton, William McGregor |
William
McGregor Paxton (June 22, 1869 – 1941) was an American Impressionist
painter.
Born in
Baltimore, the Paxton family came to Newton Corner in the mid-1870s, where
William's father James established himself as a caterer. At 18, William won a
scholarship to attend the Cowles Art School, where he began his art studies
with Dennis Miller... | 1869 - 1941 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| 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 |
| Polk, Charles Peale |
Charles
Peale Polk (March 17, 1767 – May 6, 1822) was a renowned American
portrait painter and the nephew of artist Charles Willson
Peale.
Biography
Polk was
born in Annapolis, Maryland, to Elizabeth Digby Peale
and Robert Polk. At age eight or ten (sources vary on the exact age), after
being orphaned, he was sent to Philadelphia to live with... | 1767 - 1822 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Pearce, Charles Sprague |
During the
mid-nineteenth century, before America had truly established its claim to
artistic originality, American artists were seduced by the fascinating Parisian
art scene. During the latter half
of the nineteenth century an important group of American artists congregated in
France, among them Mary Cassatt, James Abbot MacNeill
Whistler –... | 1851 - 1914 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Pell, Ella Ferris | 1846 - 1922 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
