Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Pinney, Eunice |
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... | 1770 - 1849 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
| Perry, Enoch Wood |
Enoch Wood
Perry, Jr. (1831–1915) was a painter from the United States.
Life
Perry was
born in Boston on July 31, 1831. His father was Enoch Wood Perry, and mother
was Hannah Knapp Dole. His maternal grandparents were Samuel Dole and Katherine
Wigglesworth.[1] The family moved to New Orleans with
his family as a teenager in 1848 and attended... | 1831 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Pennington, Harper |
Harper
Pennington was born in Baltimore to a prominent Maryland family. After studying
drawing at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris with the
renowned teacher and artist Jean Leon Gérome,
in 1880 he traveled to Munich, where the American artist Frank Duveneck's school was well known. Pennington was advised to
join Duveneck's winter art class in... | 1853 - 1920 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Powers, Harriet |
Harriet
Powers (October 29, 1837 – January 1, 1910) was
an African American slave, folk artist and quilt maker from rural Georgia. She
used traditional appliqué techniques to record local legends, Bible
stories, and astronomical events on her quilts. Only two of her quilts have
survived: Bible Quilt 1886 and Pictorial Quilt 1898. Her quilts are... | 1837 - 1911 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| 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 |
| Peale, Margaretta Angelica |
Margaretta
Angelica Peale (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1795 - died there,
January 17, 1882) was an American painter, one of the Peale family
of artists. The daughter of James Peale, she was the sister of Sarah Miriam
Peale, Anna Claypoole Peale, and Maria Peale. She was
taught by her father, and painted primarily still-lifes,
many... | 1795 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/10/2012 |
| Peale, Mary |
Mary Jane
Peale (born New York City, February 16, 1827 - died Pottsville, Pennsylvania,
November, 1902) was an American painter. She was the child of Rubens and Eliza
Burd Patterson Peale, the only daughter among seven children, and was the
granddaughter of Charles Willson Peale. She was among the last members of the
Peale family to paint... | 1827 - 1902 | Anonymous | 03/21/2012 |
| Pratt, Matthew |
Matthew
Pratt was born in Philadelphia in 1734. He served an apprenticeship with his
uncle James Claypoole, a limner and painter, from
1749 to 1755. Pratt opened a similar business which he interrupted with a brief
speculative trading voyage to Jamaica. When he returned to Philadelphia he
began to paint portraits, at which he proved very... | 1734 - 1805 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
| Pelham, Peter |
Peter
Pelham (ca. 1695[1] – December 1751), American limner and engraver, was
born in England, a son of a man named "gentleman" in his will. His
father, who died in Chichester, Sussex, in 1756, is
revealed in letters to his son in America as a man of some property.[2]
London
Pelham was
one of several London artists who learned the then new... | 1695 - 1751 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
