Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Robinson, John | 1774 - ca. 1829 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Robinson, J.C. |
The
inscription on the reverse of the National Gallery's Portrait of an Old Man
(1955.11.14) identifies the painter as J. C. Robinson. No biographical
information on Robinson has been discovered. A Joseph C. Robinson who made
daguerreotypes is listed in directories from New York City in 1848 and from
Cincinnati in 1850-1851. Whether he painted... | Born 1848 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
Robinson, Boardman | 1876 - 1952 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
Robertson, Walter | ca. 1750 - 1802 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 | |
Robertson, Archibald |
ROBERTSON,
ARCHIBALD (1765–1835), miniature-painter, born at Monymusk
in Scotland on 8 May 1765, was eldest son of William Robertson of Drumnahoy, near Aberdeen, and Jean Ross, his wife; Andrew
Robertson [q. v.] was his brother. He was educated at Aberdeen, and received
his first instruction in drawing from a deaf-and-dumb artist. In 1786 he... | 1765 - 1835 | Anonymous | 04/13/2012 |
Robertson, Andrew | 1777 - 1845 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
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 |
Robbins, Horace Wolcott Jr. |
Robbins
studied at Newton University in Baltimore.
He moved to New York City after college, studied under James M. Hart in
1859, and opened his own studio in 1860.
He accompanied Frederic Church to Jamaica in 1864 and continued his
studies in England, Paris, and Switzerland in 1865 and 1866. He had a studio in the Adirondack
Mountains of... | 1842 - 1904 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
Robbins, Ellen |
Ellen
Robbins is best known for her watercolor paintings of flowers and autumn
leaves. Primarily a self-taught watercolorist, Robbins was born in Watertown,
Massachusetts in 1828. During her youth, she spent hours copying lithographs
from drawing books. During the 1940s, she studied briefly at the New England
School of Design and Manchester... | 1828 - 1905 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
Rindisbacher, Peter |
Peter Rindisbacher (12 April 1806 – 12 August or 13 August
1834) was a North American artist who specialized in watercolors and
illustrations dealing with First Nation tribes of mid-Western Canada and the
United States, mostly depictions of the Anishinaabe,
Cree, and Sioux, usually in group action or genre scenes.[1]
He seldom did individual... | 1806 - 1834 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |