Artists

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...

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...

Eunice Pinney is the earliest known American primitive watercolorist. She was born into a large, wealthy family in Simsbury, Connecticut. Well-educated, she and her seven siblings enjoyed performing plays for neighbors, and Pinney's flair for drama surfaces in the poses, gestures, and facial expressions of the people in her...