Artists
Name | Info | Years
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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 |
Ramsey, Milne | ![]()
Born in Philadelphia in 1847, Milne Ramsey was a still life, landscape, and figure painter who remains best known for his highly realistic his still-life scenes.
Early in his career as an artist, Ramsey studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and then under Leon Bonnat in Paris from 1871-1876. Although he exhibited extensively throughout his... | 1846 - 1915 | Anonymous | 03/04/2013 |
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, J.C. | ![]()
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 1848 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
Rehn, Frank Knox Morton | 1848 - 1914 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
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 |
Richardson, Mary Curtis | 1848 - 1931 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 | |
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 |
Rice, Henry Webster | ![]() Henry Webster Rice was a professional watercolourist and teacher. Born in Pownal, Maine in 1853, he died in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1934. By 1885, he was a pupil of Ross Sterling Turner (1847-1915). He was also an oil painter of genre scenes and landscapes, although he painted mostly marine views of boats and fishermen. He taught the aritst... | 1853 - 1934 | Anonymous | 12/21/2012 |
Raschen, Henry | 1854 - 1937 | Anonymous | 04/15/2012 |