Artists

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Read, Thomas Buchanannotes
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 - 1872Anonymous05/20/2012
Redmond, Granvillenotes
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 - 1935Anonymous05/20/2012
Reid, Robertnotes
Robert Lewis Reid (July 29, 1862 – December 2, 1929) was an American Impressionist painter and muralist. Life and work Robert Reid was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston under Otto Grundmann, where he was also later an instructor. In 1884 he moved to New York City, studying at the Art...
1862 - 1929Anonymous05/26/2012
Richards, William Trostnotes
William Trost Richards (June 3, 1833 - April 17, 1905) was an American landscape artist associated with both the Hudson River School and the American Pre-Raphaelite movement. Biography William Trost Richards was born on 3 June 1833 in Philadelphia. In 1846 and 1847 he attended the local Central High School. Between 1850 and 1855 he studied...
1833 - 1905Anonymous05/20/2012
Rimmer, Williamnotes
William Rimmer (20 February 1816 – 20 August 1879) was an American artist born in Liverpool, England. He was the son of a French refugee, who emigrated to Nova Scotia, where he was joined by his wife and child in 1818, and who in 1826 moved to Boston, where he earned a living as a shoemaker. The son learned the father's trade; at fifteen became a...
1816 - 1879Anonymous05/20/2012
Rindisbacher, Peternotes
Peter Rindisbacher (12 April 1806 – 12 August or 13 August 1834) was a North American artist who specialized in watercolors and illustrations dealing with First Nation tribes of mid-Western Canada and the United States, mostly depictions of the Anishinaabe, Cree, and Sioux, usually in group action or genre scenes.[1] He seldom did individual...
1806 - 1834Anonymous05/20/2012
Robbins, Ellennotes
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 - 1905Anonymous04/03/2012
Robinson, J.C.notes
The inscription on the reverse of the National Gallery's Portrait of an Old Man (1955.11.14) identifies the painter as J. C. Robinson. No biographical information on Robinson has been discovered. A Joseph C. Robinson who made daguerreotypes is listed in directories from New York City in 1848 and from Cincinnati in 1850-1851. Whether he painted...
Born 1848Anonymous05/20/2012
Roesen, Severinnotes
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 - 1872Anonymous05/20/2012
Rondel, Fredericknotes
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 - 1892Anonymous05/25/2012
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