Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price, Samuel Woodson | 
Samuel
Woodson Price (August 5, 1828 – January 22, 1918) was a portrait artist,
Union general in the American Civil War, and author.
Early life
Price was
born near Nicholasville, Kentucky to Daniel Branch and Elizabeth (Crockett)
Price. He began to show great aptitude for art at an early age, having set up a
studio in a Nicholasville hotel by... | 1828 - 1918 | Anonymous | 04/29/2012 |
| 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 |
| Preston, Jessie Goodwin | Born 1880 | Anonymous | 04/20/2012 | |
| Parrott, William Samuel |
Born in
Missouri in 1843, William Samuel Parrott came west with his family to Oregon in
1847, and moved with them to Washington in 1859. By 1867 he had established
himself as a painter in Portland, where he would maintain a studio for twenty
years
Parrott
painted throughout the West from California to Idaho, but is best known for his
paintings of... | 1844 - 1915 | Anonymous | 04/15/2012 |
| Pell, Ella Ferris | 1846 - 1922 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
| Parsons, Charles | 1821 - 1910 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 | |
| Pennington, Harper |
Harper
Pennington was born in Baltimore to a prominent Maryland family. After studying
drawing at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris with the
renowned teacher and artist Jean Leon Gérome,
in 1880 he traveled to Munich, where the American artist Frank Duveneck's school was well known. Pennington was advised to
join Duveneck's winter art class in... | 1853 - 1920 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Preston, James | 1873 - 1962 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
