Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by
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Peckham, Robert | 1785 - 1877 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 | |
Peterson, Jane | 1876 - 1965 | Alexander Lusher | 03/18/2012 | |
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 |
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 |
Paradise, John Wesley | 1809 - 1862 | igrkio | 03/27/2012 | |
Peale, Sarah Miriam | ![]()
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 - 1885 | igrkio | 03/27/2012 |