Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
