Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prior, William Matthew | 
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 - 1873 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Puthuff, Hanson D. |
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 - 1972 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Phelps, William Preston |
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 - 1917 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Paul, Jeremiah |
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 - 1820 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
| Pine, Robert Edge |
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 - 1788 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
| 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 |
