Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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| 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 |
| Prendergast, Maurice |
Maurice
Brazil Prendergast (October 10, 1858 – February 1, 1924) was an American
Post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolor, and monotype. He
exhibited as a member of The Eight, though the delicacy of his compositions and
mosaic-like beauty of his style differed from the philosophy of the group.
Biography
Maurice
Prendergast and... | 1858 - 1924 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |
| Page, Harlan | 1791 - 1834 | Anonymous | 07/28/2012 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Peale, Anna Claypoole |
(b Philadelphia, PA, 6 March 1791; d Philadelphia, PA, 25 Dec
1878). Miniature painter, daughter of (2) James Peale.
She was instructed by her father. Her first attempt, a fruit piece, was
exhibited in 1811 at the Society of Artists in Philadelphia. From 1820 to 1840
she was a popular miniature painter, known for the accuracy of her likenesses
and... | 1791 - 1878 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Phillips, Clarence Coles | 1880 - 1927 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 | |
| Peckham, Robert | 1785 - 1877 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 |
