Artists
Name | Info | Years
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Rusell, Edward J. | 1835 - 1906 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
Richards, William Trost | ![]()
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 - 1905 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
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 |
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 |
Rasmussen, John | 1828 - 1895 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
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 |
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 |
Rowse, Samuel Worcester | 1822 - 1901 | Anonymous | 03/20/2012 | |
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 |
Ryder, Platt Powell | 1821 - 1896 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |