Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Potthast, Edward Henry | 
Edward
Henry Potthast (June 10, 1857 – March 9, 1927)
was an American Impressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of people
at leisure in Central Park, and on the beaches of New York and New England.[1]
Life and work
He was born
in Cincinnati, Ohio. From June 10, 1879 to March 9, 1881 he studied with Thomas
Satterwhite Noble. He later... | 1857 - 1927 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Peale, Raphaelle |
Raphaelle
Peale (sometimes spelled Raphael Peale) (February 17, 1774 – March 4,
1825) is considered the first professional American painter of still-life.
Biography
Peale was
born in Annapolis, Maryland, the fifth child, though eldest surviving, of the
painter Charles Willson Peale and his first wife
Rachel Brewer. He grew up in Philadelphia,... | 1774 - 1825 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
| 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 |
