Artists

NameInfoYearsUpdated byDate
Schipper, Gerritnotes
Gerrit Schipper (baptized 13 September 1775, Amsterdam – c. 1832 London) was a Dutch painter specializing in pastel portraiture and miniature portrait paintings. After studying in Paris in the 1790s, he spent time in Brussels and Russia. He is believed to have arrived in the United States in 1802. He was active in New York, Charleston, Savannah,...
1775 - ca. 1830Anonymous04/05/2012
Stiepevich, Vincent G. 1841 - after 1910Anonymous04/07/2012
Sommer, William 1867 - 1949Anonymous04/07/2012
Stuart, Gilbertnotes
Gilbert Charles Stuart (born Stewart) (December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828) was an American painter from Rhode Island. Gilbert Stuart is widely considered to be one of America's foremost portraitists.[2] His best known work, the unfinished portrait of George Washington that is sometimes referred to as The Athenaeum, was begun in 1796 and never...
1755 - 1828igrkio04/08/2012
Stewart, Julius L.notes
Julius LeBlanc Stewart (September 6, 1855, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - January 5, 1919, Paris, France), was an American artist who spent his career in Paris. A contemporary of fellow expatriate painter John Singer Sargent, Stewart was nicknamed "the Parisian from Philadelphia."[1] His father, the sugar millionaire William Hood Stewart, moved the...
1855 - 1919Anonymous04/08/2012
Schuchardt Jr., Ferdinand 1855 - 1887Anonymous04/10/2012
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
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
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
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
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