Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Randall, A.M. | 
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. 1777 | Anonymous | 11/02/2013 |
| Ramsey, Milne |
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 - 1915 | Anonymous | 03/04/2013 |
| Russ, Charles B. | 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. 1825 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Read, James B. | 1803 - 1870 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
| Russell, Mrs. Moses B. |
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 - 1854 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
| Rice, Henry Webster | 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 - 1934 | Anonymous | 12/21/2012 |
| Ranger, Henry Ward |
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 - 1916 | Anonymous | 11/14/2012 |
| Roberts, Mary |
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 - 1755 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 |
| Russell, Moses B. | ca. 1810 - 1884 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 | |
| Ramage, John |
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 - 1802 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 |
