Artists
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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 |
Pine, Theodore E. | 1827 - 1905 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
Phelps, William Preston | ![]()
William
Preston Phelps (1848–1917), known as "the Painter of the Monadnock"[1], was an American landscape painter born
on the family farm near Chesham, in what is now the Pottersville
section of Dublin, New Hampshire on March 6, 1848 to mother Mary Phelps and
father Jayson Phelps.[2][3]
Early years
"Preston",
as he was known, grew up helping... | 1848 - 1917 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Peto, John Frederick | ![]()
John
Frederick Peto (May 21, 1854 – November 23, 1907) was an American trompe
l'oeil ("fool the eye") painter who was long forgotten until his
paintings were rediscovered along with those of fellow trompe l'oeil artist
William Harnett. Although Peto and the slightly older Harnett knew each other
and painted similar subjects, their careers... | 1854 - 1907 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Peticolas, Philippe Abraham | 1760 - 1841 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
Persico, Gennarino | ca. 1800 - ca. 1859 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
Perry, Enoch Wood | ![]()
Enoch Wood
Perry, Jr. (1831–1915) was a painter from the United States.
Life
Perry was
born in Boston on July 31, 1831. His father was Enoch Wood Perry, and mother
was Hannah Knapp Dole. His maternal grandparents were Samuel Dole and Katherine
Wigglesworth.[1] The family moved to New Orleans with
his family as a teenager in 1848 and attended... | 1831 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Pelham, Peter | ![]()
Peter
Pelham (ca. 1695[1] – December 1751), American limner and engraver, was
born in England, a son of a man named "gentleman" in his will. His
father, who died in Chichester, Sussex, in 1756, is
revealed in letters to his son in America as a man of some property.[2]
London
Pelham was
one of several London artists who learned the then new... | 1695 - 1751 | 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 |
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 |