Artists

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Smith, John Rubensnotes
John Rubens Smith (January 23, 1775 London - August 21, 1849 New York City) was a London-born painter, printmaker and art instructor who worked in the United States. Biography Smith was born in England where he first studied art with his father, John Raphael Smith, a mezzotint engraver. He later studied art at the Royal Academy. Smith emigrated...
1775 - 1849Anonymous04/21/2012
Steele, Theodore Clementnotes
Theodore Clement Steele (September 11, 1847-July 24, 1926) was an American Impressionist painter known for his Indiana landscapes. Theodore Steele's paintings are in many public collections, including those of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington, Indiana (for...
1847 - 1926Anonymous04/21/2012
Staigg, Richard Morrellnotes
Richard Morrell Staigg (7 September 1817 Leeds, England - 11 October 1881 Newport, Rhode Island) was a portrait painter. Biography When he was about thirteen years of age he was placed in an architect's office, and he subsequently received a few weeks' instruction in portrait painting. In 1831 he came to the United States with his father, and...
1817 - 1881Anonymous04/12/2012
Stanley, John Mixnotes
John Mix Stanley (January 17, 1814 – April 10, 1872) was an artist-explorer, an American painter of landscapes, and Native American portraits and tribal life. Born in the Finger Lakes region of New York, he started painting signs and portraits as a young man, but in 1842 traveled to the American West to paint Native American life. In 1846 he...
1814 - 1872Anonymous04/12/2012
Snyder, William Henry 1829 -  1910Anonymous04/12/2012
Spencer, Lilly Martinnotes
Lilly Martin Spencer (born Angelique Marie Martin) (November 26, 1822 – May 22, 1902) was one of the most popular and widely reproduced American female genre painters in the mid-nineteenth century. She painted domestic scenes, women and children in a warm happy atmosphere. Although she did have an audience for her work Spencer had difficulties...
1822 - 1902Anonymous04/12/2012
Stearns, Junius Brutusnotes
Junius Brutus Stearns (born Lucius Sawyer Stearns) (1810, Arlington, VT — 1885, Brooklyn, NY ) was an American painter best known for his five part Washington Series (1847–1856).[1] He was member of the National Academy of Design for several decades and member of its Council. His painting The Millennium was submitted as credentials for...
1810 - 1885Anonymous04/11/2012
Smibert, Johnnotes
John Smybert (or Smibert) (1688–1751), Scottish American artist, was born in Edinburgh and died in Boston, Massachusetts. Smibert began drawing while apprenticed as a painter and plasterer, on moving to London he worked as a painter of coach carriages and a copyist. He studied under Sir James Thornhill at his academy, then travelled to Edinburgh...
1688 - 1751Anonymous04/11/2012
Silva, Francis A.notes
Francis Augustus Silva painted coastal, beach, and river scenes that represent the culmination of the landscape mode, dubbed “luminism” by modern scholars, characterized by broad, horizontal compositions with low horizons, delicate color, and crystalline light. Silva was a native of New York City and the son of a barber. Apprenticed to a sign...
1835 - 1886Anonymous04/10/2012
Scott, John White Allennotes
John White Allen Scott (1815-1907) or John W.A. Scott was an artist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1][2] He worked for Pendleton's Lithography early in his career. In the 1840s he started a lithography business in partnership with Fitz Hugh Lane ("Lane & Scott's Lithography").[3][4] Around 1852 he kept a studio in Boston's...
1815 - 1907Anonymous04/10/2012
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