Artists
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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 |
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 |
Rosenthal, Toby | ![]()
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... | 1848 - 1917 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |
Rose, Guy | ![]()
Guy Rose (3
March 1867–17 November 1925) was an American Impressionist painter who is
recognized as one of California's top impressionist painters of the late 19th
and early 20th centuries.
Guy Orlando
Rose was born March 3, 1867 in San Gabriel, California. He was the seventh
child of Leonard John Rose and Amanda Jones Rose.
His father
was a... | 1867 - 1925 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
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 |
Rondel, Frederick | ![]()
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,... | 1826 - 1892 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |
Rolshoven, Julius | 1858 - 1930 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
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 |
Roesen, Severin | ![]()
Severin
Roesen (ca. 1815 – after 1872) is a painter known for his abundant fruit
and flower still lifes and is today recognized as one of the major American
still-life painters of the mid-nineteenth century.
Life
Little is
known about Roesen. He is believed to have been born in or near Cologne, and to
have exhibited a floral painting at the... | 1815 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
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 |