Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read, Thomas Buchanan | 
Thomas
Buchanan Read (March 12, 1822 – May 11, 1872),
was an American poet and portrait painter.
Biography
Read was
born in Chester County, Pennsylvania on March 12, 1822.
Read wrote
a prose romance, The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard, and several books of
poetry, including The New Pastoral, The House by the Sea, Sylvia, and A Summer
Story.... | 1822 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Rasmussen, John | 1828 - 1895 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
| Ransom, Caroline L. | 1838 - 1910 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
| Rowley, Reuben |
Little is
known about the life of Reuben Rowley, an itinerant miniature and portrait
painter. Based upon the identification of the sitters in several portraits
dating from the 1820s, he appears to have worked mainly in central New York
State between circa 1825 and 1836. It has long been assumed that Rowley and an
artist named Reuben Roulery, who is... | Born 1825 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Raschen, Henry | 1854 - 1937 | Anonymous | 04/15/2012 | |
| 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 |
| Ranney, William Tylee |
William
Tylee Ranney (May 9, 1813 – November 18, 1857) was a 19th-century
American painter, known for his depictions of Western life, sporting scenery,
historical subjects and portraiture. In his 20-year career, he made 150
paintings and 80 drawings, and is considered the first major genre painter to
work in New Jersey, and one of the most... | 1813 - 1857 | Anonymous | 04/12/2012 |
| Ryder, Platt Powell | 1821 - 1896 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
| Rusell, Edward J. | 1835 - 1906 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
| Raleigh, Charles S. |
According
to the recollections of his daughter Flora Raleigh Phinney,
Charles Sidney Raleigh produced more than eleven hundred paintings, six hundred
of them of whaling ships. Raleigh had an early introduction to maritime
pursuits. Born in Gloucester, England, in 1831, he left home at the age of ten
and spent the next thirty years as a sailor and... | 1830 - 1925 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
