Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyle, Howard | 
Howard Pyle
(March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and
author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware,
he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.
During 1894
he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and
Industry (now Drexel University), and after... | 1853 - 1911 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| 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 |
| Peticolas, Philippe Abraham | 1760 - 1841 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| Pine, Robert Edge |
Robert Edge
Pine was an English portraitist and history painter who spent the last four
years of his life in the United States. He was one of the first artists to
paint history paintings of the events of the American Revolution.
Pine was
born in London, around 1730, the son of engraver John Pine. His exact birth
date has never been discovered, and... | 1720 - 1788 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
| 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 |
| Pine, Theodore E. | 1827 - 1905 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| 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 |
| Picknell, William Lamb |
Landscape
painter William Lamb Picknell is especially famed for
the quality of light in his plein-air painting, which
was often glaringly intense, clear, and crisp. His inborn worship of nature was
amply nourished by several American masters including esteemed Hudson River
School and Tonalist painter George Inness, painter
Robert Wylie, and... | 1853 - 1897 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |
| 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 |
| Pennell, Joseph | 1857 - 1926 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
