Artists
Name | Info | Years
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Peale, Harriet Cany | 1800 - 1869 | Anonymous | 05/10/2012 | |
Peale, Sarah Miriam | ![]()
Sarah
Miriam Peale (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 19, 1800 – February 4,
1885, Philadelphia) was an American portrait painter, one of the notable family
of artists descended from the miniaturist and still-life painter James Peale,
who was her father. She is noted as a portrait painter, mainly of politicians
and military figures. Lafayette sat... | 1800 - 1885 | igrkio | 03/27/2012 |
Prior, William Matthew | ![]()
William
Matthew Prior, the second son of Matthew Prior and Sarah Bryant Prior of
Duxbury, Massachusetts, was born in Bath, Maine, in 1806. His earliest portrait
is inscribed in the artist's hand, W. M. Prior's first portrait 1823. An
inscription on an 1824 portrait (privately owned in 1992), W. M. Prior, Painter
/ Formerly of Bath / 1824 / 3 piece... | 1806 - 1873 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
Paradise, John Wesley | 1809 - 1862 | igrkio | 03/27/2012 | |
Page, William | ![]()
William
Page (January 3, 1811 in Albany, New York – October 1, 1885 in
Tottenville, Staten Island) was an American painter and portrait artist.
Life and work
William
Page studied at Phillips Academy, Andover in 1828-29 (not the Andover Theological
Seminary on the same campus, as is commonly asserted). A man of mercurial
temperament, Page was... | 1811 - 1885 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
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 |
Parsons, Charles | 1821 - 1910 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 | |
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 |
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 |
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 |