Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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Rowse, Samuel Worcester | 1822 - 1901 | Anonymous | 03/20/2012 | |
Robinson, Boardman | 1876 - 1952 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
Robbins, Ellen | ![]()
Ellen
Robbins is best known for her watercolor paintings of flowers and autumn
leaves. Primarily a self-taught watercolorist, Robbins was born in Watertown,
Massachusetts in 1828. During her youth, she spent hours copying lithographs
from drawing books. During the 1940s, she studied briefly at the New England
School of Design and Manchester... | 1828 - 1905 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
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 |
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 |
Reynolds, Virginia Richmond | 1866 - 1903 | 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 |
Rusell, Edward J. | 1835 - 1906 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
Ryder, Platt Powell | 1821 - 1896 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |