Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Pillement, Follower of Jean-Baptiste | 1727 - 1808 | Anonymous | 03/30/2012 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Partridge, Nehemiah |
In 1980
Mary Black proposed that Nehemiah Partridge may be the anonymous artist
recognized variously by the appellations "Schuyler Limner" and "Aetatis Suae Limner".
Nehemiah
Partridge, one of four members of his family known to have borne this name, was
one of five children of Col. William Partridge (c. 1652-1728) and Mary Brown,
who were married... | 1683 - 1737 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Porter, John S. | Active ca. 1820 | Anonymous | 03/30/2012 |
