Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Ramage, John |
John Ramage (1748 – October 24, 1802) was an Irish
American artist.
Career
Ramage
was born in Dublin, Ireland. He entered the Dublin School of Artists in 1763
and began his career as a goldsmith and miniaturist. Most of his commissions
were earned via portraits. In 1772, he traveled to Halifax, Nova Scotia and
subsequently settled in... | ca. 1748 - 1802 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Russ, Charles B. | Charles B. Russ was an artist active in the second half of the 19th century. During the period from 1870 to 1880, Russ lived on Hancock Street in Cambridge, MA. Russ's daughter, Annie, married Henry Lansing Millis on December 15, 1880. The town of Millis, MA, was named for Henry's father, Lansing Millis, who made his money in railroads.
Russ... | Born c. 1825 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Raschen, Henry | 1854 - 1937 | Anonymous | 04/15/2012 | |
| Read, James B. | 1803 - 1870 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
| Rusell, Edward J. | 1835 - 1906 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
