Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Prang, Louis | Louis Prang (March 12, 1824 – September 14, 1909) was an American printer, lithographer and publisher. He is sometimes known as the "father of the American Christmas card".
Youth
Prang was born in Breslau in Prussian Silesia. His father Jonas Louis Prang was a textile manufacturer and of French Huguenot origin. Because of health problems as a boy,... | 1824 - 1909 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Paskell, William F. | William F. Paskell was born in London and moved to Boston in 1872 with his family. By the age of twenty-one he was already mentioned in the press as a very promising artist, with his paintings hanging beside the work of Childe Hassam and John J. Enneking in the annual Boston Art Club exhibitions. Paskell married in 1900 and by 1905 had four... | 1866 - 1951 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 |
