Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Parrish, Maxfield | 1870 - 1966 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| Parton, Arthur |
Arthur
Parton was born in Hudson, New York March 26, 1842. He enrolled in the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, studying under William Trost Richards. Gaining a keen grounding in the technical
aspects of his art, Richards remained a strong influence.
Parton was
known as a Hudson River School painter, especially of river and... | 1842 - 1914 | 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 |
| Paxson, Edgar Samuel |
Edgar
Samuel Paxson (April 25, 1852 – November 9,
1919) was an American frontier painter, scout, soldier and writer, based mainly
in Montana. He is best known for his portraits of Native Americans in the Old
West and for his depiction of the Battle of Little Bighorn in his painting
"Custer's Last Stand".[1]
Biography
Paxson
was born in 1852 to... | 1852 - 1919 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
