Artists

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Peale, Sarah Miriamnotes
Sarah Miriam Peale (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 19, 1800 – February 4, 1885, Philadelphia) was an American portrait painter, one of the notable family of artists descended from the miniaturist and still-life painter James Peale, who was her father. She is noted as a portrait painter, mainly of politicians and military figures. Lafayette sat...
1800 - 1885igrkio03/27/2012
Prendergast, Mauricenotes
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 - 1924Anonymous05/25/2012
Prentice, Levi Wellsnotes
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 - 1935Anonymous05/19/2012
Prior, William Matthewnotes
William Matthew Prior, the second son of Matthew Prior and Sarah Bryant Prior of Duxbury, Massachusetts, was born in Bath, Maine, in 1806. His earliest portrait is inscribed in the artist's hand, W. M. Prior's first portrait 1823. An inscription on an 1824 portrait (privately owned in 1992), W. M. Prior, Painter / Formerly of Bath / 1824 / 3 piece...
1806 - 1873Anonymous04/21/2012
Puthuff, Hanson D.notes
Hanson Duvall Puthuff (August 21, 1875 – May 12, 1972) was a landscape painter and muralist, born in Waverly, Missouri. Puthuff studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before moving to Colorado in 1889 to study at University of Denver Art School. He traveled to Los Angeles in 1903 and for 23 years worked as a commercial artist painting billboards...
1875 - 1972Anonymous05/19/2012
Phelps, William Prestonnotes
William Preston Phelps (1848–1917), known as "the Painter of the Monadnock"[1], was an American landscape painter born on the family farm near Chesham, in what is now the Pottersville section of Dublin, New Hampshire on March 6, 1848 to mother Mary Phelps and father Jayson Phelps.[2][3] Early years "Preston", as he was known, grew up helping...
1848 - 1917Anonymous05/19/2012
Paxson, Edgar Samuelnotes
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 -  1919Anonymous05/19/2012
Pyle, Howardnotes
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 -  1911Anonymous10/13/2012
Paul, Jeremiahnotes
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 - 1820Anonymous03/31/2012
Pine, Robert Edgenotes
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 -  1788Anonymous03/31/2012
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