Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranney, William Tylee | 
William
Tylee Ranney (May 9, 1813 – November 18, 1857) was a 19th-century
American painter, known for his depictions of Western life, sporting scenery,
historical subjects and portraiture. In his 20-year career, he made 150
paintings and 80 drawings, and is considered the first major genre painter to
work in New Jersey, and one of the most... | 1813 - 1857 | Anonymous | 04/12/2012 |
| 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 |
| Raschen, Henry | 1854 - 1937 | Anonymous | 04/15/2012 | |
| 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 |
| Ransom, Caroline L. | 1838 - 1910 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
| Rasmussen, John | 1828 - 1895 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
| Read, Thomas Buchanan |
Thomas
Buchanan Read (March 12, 1822 – May 11, 1872),
was an American poet and portrait painter.
Biography
Read was
born in Chester County, Pennsylvania on March 12, 1822.
Read wrote
a prose romance, The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard, and several books of
poetry, including The New Pastoral, The House by the Sea, Sylvia, and A Summer
Story.... | 1822 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Redmond, Granville |
Granville
Redmond (March 9, 1871 – May 24, 1935) was an American landscape painter
and exponent of Tonalism and California
Impressionism.
Early years
Granville
Richard Seymour Redmond was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 9, 1871
to a hearing family. He contracted Scarlet Fever at around 2½ to the age
of 3; when he recovered, he was... | 1871 - 1935 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| 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 |
| Rehn, Frank Knox Morton | 1848 - 1914 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
