Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Peale, Rembrandt |
Rembrandt
Peale (February 22, 1778 – October 3, 1860) was an American artist and
museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his
likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style
was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his... | 1778 - 1860 | Anonymous | 05/10/2012 |
| Peale, Rubens |
Rubens
Peale (May 4, 1784 – July 17, 1865) was an American artist and museum
director. Born in Philadelphia, he was a son of artist-naturalist, Charles Willson Peale.
Life
He was the
fourth son of Charles Willson Peale. Rubens had weak
eyes and, unlike most of his siblings, did not set out to be an artist. He
traveled with the family in 1802 to... | 1784 - 1864 | Anonymous | 05/10/2012 |
| Peckham, Robert | 1785 - 1877 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Page, Harlan | 1791 - 1834 | Anonymous | 07/28/2012 | |
| Peale, Margaretta Angelica |
Margaretta
Angelica Peale (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1795 - died there,
January 17, 1882) was an American painter, one of the Peale family
of artists. The daughter of James Peale, she was the sister of Sarah Miriam
Peale, Anna Claypoole Peale, and Maria Peale. She was
taught by her father, and painted primarily still-lifes,
many... | 1795 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/10/2012 |
