Artists

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...