Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Parshall, DeWitt | 1864 - 1956 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
| Prendergast, Maurice |
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 - 1924 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |
| 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 |
| Pennell, Joseph | 1857 - 1926 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
| Post, William Merritt | 1856 - 1935 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
| Palmer, Walter Launt |
Walter Launt Palmer was the nineteenth century’s most
celebrated painter of snow scenes. The son of the sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer,
Walter was surrounded by great art and artists at an early age. He trained with
the noted Hudson River School landscapist Frederic Church and exhibited at the
National Academy of Design before embarking on a... | 1854 - 1932 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
| Peto, John Frederick |
John
Frederick Peto (May 21, 1854 – November 23, 1907) was an American trompe
l'oeil ("fool the eye") painter who was long forgotten until his
paintings were rediscovered along with those of fellow trompe l'oeil artist
William Harnett. Although Peto and the slightly older Harnett knew each other
and painted similar subjects, their careers... | 1854 - 1907 | 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 |
| 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 |
