Artists
Name
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Sully, Lawrence | 1769 - 1804 | Anonymous | 02/20/2012 | |
Sully, Thomas | ![]()
Thomas
Sully (June 19, 1783 – November 5, 1872) was a well-known American
(English-born) painter, mostly of portraits.
Life and career
Early life
Sully was born
in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, to the actors
Matthew and Sarah Sully. In March 1792 the Sullys and
their nine children immigrated to Richmond, Virginia, where Thomas’s
uncle... | 1783 - 1872 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
Sully, Thomas Wilcocks | ![]()
Thomas Wilcocks Sully, born in Philadelphia on January 3, 1811,
was one of six children of the portrait painter Thomas Sully and his wife,
Sarah Annis Sully, who was his brother
Lawrence's widow. The younger Thomas' middle name was probably derived from his
father's patron Benjamin Chew Wilcocks, a leading
Philadelphia merchant. After studying art... | 1811 - 1847 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Suydam, James Augustus | ![]()
The work of
James Augustus Suydam, characterized by idealized
tranquil landscapes and seascapes illuminated by softly sunlit skies, is emblematic of the American Luminist
movement of the nineteenth century.
Biography
James
Augustus Suydam was born on March 27, 1819 in New
York City. Suydam’s family was of Dutch
decedent, tracing their ancestry... | 1819 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/24/2012 |
Svinin, Pavel Petrovich | 1787/88 - 1839 | Alexander Lusher | 03/18/2012 | |
Symons, George Gardner | ![]()
A landscape
and marine artist, George Symons was one of America's more noted plein-air painters who combined styles of impressionism and
realism. His works are cited for their energy and simplicity, and he often did
panoramic views.
He was born
in Chicago, Illinois in 1861, with the name of George Gardner Simon, but he
changed his last name to... | 1863 - 1930 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |