Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Redmond, Granville |
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 - 1935 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
