Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perry, Lilla Cabot | 
Lilla
Cabot Perry (January 13, 1848—February 28, 1933) was an American artist
who worked in the Impressionist style, rendering portraits and landscapes in
the free form manner of her mentor, Claude Monet. Perry was an early advocate
of the French Impressionist style and contributed to its reception in the
United States. Perry's early work was... | 1848 - 1933 | Anonymous | 12/21/2012 |
| Pope, Alexander | 1849 - 1924 | Alexander Lusher | 03/18/2012 | |
| Prentice, Levi Wells |
Levi Wells
Prentice (18 December 1851 – 28 November 1935) was an American still life
and landscape painter.
Prentice
was associated with the Hudson River School, a group of artists known
throughout art circles. According to the book Nature Staged by Barbara L.
Jones, Prentice followed a self-prescribed educational path, begun by the
Hudson River... | 1850 - 1935 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Palmer, Walter Launt |
Walter Launt Palmer was the nineteenth century’s most
celebrated painter of snow scenes. The son of the sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer,
Walter was surrounded by great art and artists at an early age. He trained with
the noted Hudson River School landscapist Frederic Church and exhibited at the
National Academy of Design before embarking on a... | 1854 - 1932 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
