Artists

NameInfoYearsUpdated byDate
Randall, A.M.notes
No information on the artist has been located. The artist's name and active date of 1777 come from the inscription on the National Gallery's painting Basket of Fruit with Parrot (1980.62.20). While it is possible that this is an English painting, it probably was produced in America by an artist copying a European still life, or more likely, a...
Active ca. 1777Anonymous11/02/2013
Ramsey, Milnenotes
Born in Philadelphia in 1847, Milne Ramsey was a still life, landscape, and figure painter who remains best known for his highly realistic his still-life scenes. Early in his career as an artist, Ramsey studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and then under Leon Bonnat in Paris from 1871-1876. Although he exhibited extensively throughout his...
1846 - 1915Anonymous03/04/2013
Russ, Charles B.notes
Charles B. Russ was an artist active in the second half of the 19th century.  During the period from 1870 to 1880, Russ lived on Hancock Street in Cambridge, MA.  Russ's daughter, Annie, married Henry Lansing Millis on December 15, 1880.  The town of Millis, MA, was named for Henry's father, Lansing Millis, who made his money in railroads. Russ...
Born c. 1825Anonymous12/27/2012
Read, James B. 1803 - 1870Anonymous12/23/2012
Russell, Mrs. Moses B.notes
Clarissa Peters was born in Februay 1809 in Andover, Massachusetts. While little is known about her early life, it is believed that she taught at the Blue Hill Academy in Blue Hill, Maine. By 1835 she was working in Boston as a miniaturist and giving instruction. In 1839 she married Moses Baker Russell, who was also a miniaturist and instructor. Even...
1809 - 1854Anonymous12/23/2012
Rice, Henry Websternotes
Henry Webster Rice was a professional watercolourist and teacher.  Born in Pownal, Maine in 1853, he died in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1934.  By 1885, he was a pupil of Ross Sterling Turner (1847-1915).  He was also an oil painter of genre scenes and landscapes, although he painted mostly marine views of boats and fishermen.  He taught the aritst...
1853 - 1934Anonymous12/21/2012
Ranger, Henry Wardnotes
Henry Ward Ranger (January 29, 1858 – November 7, 1916 ), American artist, was born in western New York State. He became a prominent landscape and marine painter, much of his work being done in the Netherlands, and showing the influence of the modern Dutch school. He became a National Academician (1906), and a member of the American Water Color...
1858 - 1916Anonymous11/14/2012
Roberts, Marynotes
Mary Roberts (died 1761) was an American miniaturist active in Charleston, South Carolina in the 1740s and 1750s. One of the earliest American miniaturists, and the first woman recorded as working in the medium in the American colonies,[1] she is also believed to have painted the first watercolor-on-ivory miniature in the...
Active ca. 1745 - 1755Anonymous10/15/2012
Russell, Moses B. ca. 1810 - 1884Anonymous10/15/2012
Ramage, Johnnotes
John Ramage (1748 – October 24, 1802) was an Irish American artist. Career Ramage was born in Dublin, Ireland. He entered the Dublin School of Artists in 1763 and began his career as a goldsmith and miniaturist. Most of his commissions were earned via portraits. In 1772, he traveled to Halifax, Nova Scotia and subsequently settled in...
ca. 1748 - 1802Anonymous10/15/2012
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