Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
Robinson, John | 1774 - ca. 1829 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Robertson, Andrew | 1777 - 1845 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
Rogers, Nathaniel |
Nathaniel
Rogers gained his fame painting miniature portraits in New York City, but had
well-established roots on eastern Long Island. He was born in Bridgehampton on August
1, 1787, the son of John T. Rogers, a farmer, and Sarah Brown, the eldest daughter
of the second Presbyterian minister in Bridgehampton, James Brown. Within the
family he was... | 1787 - 1844 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
Ropes Jr., George |
George
Ropes, born in Salem, Massachusetts, on 15 May 1788, was a deaf mute. He was
one of nine children of a sea captain, George Ropes, Sr., and Seethe (Millet)
Ropes and had one sister who suffered from the same affliction as he. The
artist lived in Salem almost his entire life, except for the years 1798 to
1801, when his father decided to try... | 1788 - 1819 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Read, James B. | 1803 - 1870 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
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 |
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 |
Rothermel, Peter Frederick |
Peter
Frederick Rothermel (July 8, 1817 – August 15, 1895) was an American
painter.
Biography
Rothermel
was born in Nescopeck, Pennsylvania in 1817, although some date his birth
earlier, in 1813 or 1814. He had a common-school education, and studied land
surveying.[1] At age 20, he moved to Philadelphia and became a sign painter.[2]
Then at age... | 1812 - 1895 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
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 |
Roesen, Severin |
Severin
Roesen (ca. 1815 – after 1872) is a painter known for his abundant fruit
and flower still lifes and is today recognized as one of the major American
still-life painters of the mid-nineteenth century.
Life
Little is
known about Roesen. He is believed to have been born in or near Cologne, and to
have exhibited a floral painting at the... | 1815 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
Rimmer, William |
William
Rimmer (20 February 1816 – 20 August 1879) was an American artist born in
Liverpool, England. He was the son of a French refugee, who emigrated to Nova
Scotia, where he was joined by his wife and child in 1818, and who in 1826
moved to Boston, where he earned a living as a shoemaker. The son learned the
father's trade; at fifteen became a... | 1816 - 1879 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
Rossiter, Thomas Prichard |
Thomas
Prichard Rossiter (1818-1871) was born in New Haven,
Connecticut. He first learned painting as an apprentice for a Mr. John Boyd,
and also studied with Nathaniel Jocelyn. In 1838 he exhibited two paintings at
the National Academy of Design, and in 1939 moved to New York City and opened a
studio.
In 1840, Rossiter traveled to Europe with... | 1818 - 1871 | Anonymous | 06/11/2012 |
Richardt, Ferdinand |
Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (10 April 1819 - 29
October 1895) Danish-American artist, in Denmark known for his lithographs of
manor houses, and in the U.S. for his paintings of Niagara Falls and other
landscapes.
Life
Ferdinand Richardt, the son of Johan Joachim Richardt
and Johanne Frederikke
née Bohse, was born in Brede, north of
Copenhagen in... | 1819 - 1895 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
Richards, Thomas Addison |
During the
first half of the nineteenth century artists fanned out across the northeastern
United States to find aesthetic inspiration in nature. Thomas Addison Richards
was one of the few who traveled extensively in the South. Through his
paintings, illustrated magazine articles, and guidebooks, Richards introduced
the natural beauty and distinct... | 1820 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
Ryder, Platt Powell | 1821 - 1896 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
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 |
Rowse, Samuel Worcester | 1822 - 1901 | Anonymous | 03/20/2012 | |
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 |
Rondel, Frederick |
Picnic
scenes became an increasingly popular genre subject in American painting during
the nineteenth century. Though Frederick Rondel, born and trained in Paris, is
known most often as a landscapist, it is his genre scenes set within rustic
landscapes such as The Picnic, which recall the era's genteel charm.
By 1855,
Rondel was living in Boston,... | 1826 - 1892 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |
Rasmussen, John | 1828 - 1895 | 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 |
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 |
Richards, William Trost |
William
Trost Richards (June 3, 1833 - April 17, 1905) was an American landscape artist
associated with both the Hudson River School and the American Pre-Raphaelite
movement.
Biography
William Trost
Richards was born on 3 June 1833 in Philadelphia. In 1846 and 1847 he attended
the local Central High School. Between 1850 and 1855 he studied... | 1833 - 1905 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
Rusell, Edward J. | 1835 - 1906 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
Ream, Carducius Plantagenet |
Carducius Plantagenet Ream was one of the most important still life painters of the 19th century. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Ream began his artistic career painting in New York and Cincinnati before he moved to Chicago in 1878. It was in Chicago that Ream became the city's leading still life painter and gained national and international recognition for... | 1837 - 1917 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
Ransom, Caroline L. | 1838 - 1910 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
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 |
Redwood, Allen Christian |
Allen
Christian Redwood was one of the few sketch artists of the Civil War who
actually fought in military battles, and his documentation was of noted
historical value to the Southern side of the War. By the 1890s, he was a
western illustrator for Harper's, Century and other magazines and traveled
widely in the West. In 1898 Harper's sent him to... | 1844 - 1922 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
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 |
Ryder, Albert Pinkham |
Albert
Pinkham Ryder (March 19, 1847 – March 28, 1917) was an American painter
best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes, as well as
his eccentric personality. While his art shared an emphasis on subtle
variations of color with tonalist works of the time, it was unique for
accentuating form in a way that some art... | 1847 - 1917 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
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 |
Rehn, Frank Knox Morton | 1848 - 1914 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
Rosenthal, Toby |
Toby Edward
Rosenthal (15 March 1848 in New Haven, Connecticut – 23 December 1917 in
Munich) was an American painter.
Biography
Moving to
San Francisco with his parents in 1855, he there studied painting under
Fortunato Arriola. In 1865 he went to Munich, where he was a pupil of the Royal
Academy under Strachuber, Karl Raupp and Karl Theodor... | 1848 - 1917 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |
Richardson, Mary Curtis | 1848 - 1931 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 | |
Robinson, Theodore |
Theodore
Robinson (July 3, 1852 – April 2, 1896) was an American painter best
known for his impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American
artists to take up impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting Giverny and developing a close friendship with Claude
Monet. Several of his works are considered masterpieces of... | 1852 - 1896 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
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 |
Raschen, Henry | 1854 - 1937 | Anonymous | 04/15/2012 | |
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 |
Rhead, Louis John | 1858 - 1926 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
Rolshoven, Julius | 1858 - 1930 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
Remington, Frederic |
Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 – December 26,
1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who
specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating
on the last quarter of the 19th century American West and images of cowboys,
American Indians, and the U. S. Cavalry.
Early... | 1861 - 1909 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Reid, Robert |
Robert
Lewis Reid (July 29, 1862 – December 2, 1929) was an American
Impressionist painter and muralist.
Life and work
Robert Reid
was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and attended the School of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston under Otto Grundmann, where he was also later an instructor.
In 1884 he moved to New York City, studying at the Art... | 1862 - 1929 | Anonymous | 05/26/2012 |
Relyea, Charles Mark | 1863 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Russell, Charles M. |
Charles
Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 – October 24, 1926),[1]
also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was
an artist of the Old American West. Russell created more than 2,000 paintings
of cowboys, Indians, and landscapes set in the Western United States, in
addition to bronze sculptures. Known as 'the cowboy... | 1864 - 1926 | Anonymous | 05/27/2012 |
Reynolds, Virginia Richmond | 1866 - 1903 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 | |
Rose, Guy |
Guy Rose (3
March 1867–17 November 1925) was an American Impressionist painter who is
recognized as one of California's top impressionist painters of the late 19th
and early 20th centuries.
Guy Orlando
Rose was born March 3, 1867 in San Gabriel, California. He was the seventh
child of Leonard John Rose and Amanda Jones Rose.
His father
was a... | 1867 - 1925 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Ryder, Chauncey F. | 1868 - 1949 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |