Artists

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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
Robinson, Theodorenotes
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 - 1896Anonymous04/04/2012
Ryder, Albert Pinkhamnotes
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 - 1917Anonymous04/04/2012
Ropes Jr., Georgenotes
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 - 1819Anonymous04/04/2012
Raleigh, Charles S.notes
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 - 1925Anonymous04/09/2012
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
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
Ranney, William Tyleenotes
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 - 1857Anonymous04/12/2012
Read, Thomas Buchanannotes
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 - 1872Anonymous05/20/2012
Redmond, Granvillenotes
Granville Redmond (March 9, 1871 – May 24, 1935) was an American landscape painter and exponent of Tonalism and California Impressionism. Early years Granville Richard Seymour Redmond was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 9, 1871 to a hearing family. He contracted Scarlet Fever at around 2½ to the age of 3; when he recovered, he was...
1871 - 1935Anonymous05/20/2012
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