Artists
Name | Info | Years
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Salmon, Robert | ![]()
Robert
Salmon was born in Whitehaven, a port situated on the northwest coast of
England. Although his artistic beginnings are unknown, his career can be
divided into two periods. Between 1800 and 1828 he lived in England and
Scotland, and his work faithfully recorded the environs of Liverpool and
Greenock. Salmon's style at this time reflected the... | 1775 - 1845 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Smith, John Rubens | ![]()
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 - 1849 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
Schipper, Gerrit | ![]()
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. 1830 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |
Shaw, Joshua | ![]()
Joshua Shaw
(1776-1860) was an Anglo-American artist and inventor.[1]
Early life
Shaw was
born in Ellesmere Port, England in 1776 and was orphaned at the age of 7. To
survive he worked for a local farmer as a bird scarer. During the three years
he spent doing this work he discovered his artistic talent and began drawing
the animals he... | 1776 - 1860 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Stone, Anstiss | 1778 - 1807 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
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 |
Svinin, Pavel Petrovich | 1787/88 - 1839 | Alexander Lusher | 03/18/2012 | |
Street, Robert | ![]()
Robert
Street was born in 1796 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, the grandson of an English
immigrant who had mistakenly been disinherited. His activity as an artist is
undocumented until 1815, when he exhibited a painting at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts. He exhibited there sporadically until 1861. Between
1821 and 1823 he achieved a... | 1796 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/24/2012 |
Smith, Joseph B. | ![]()
A
traditional American marine artist in ever sense, it
is unusual for an artist to exhibit such a high level of quality, which Joseph
B. Smith does, and have only two dozen or so known surviving works to his
credit. The majority of works were performed in conjunction with his son,
William S. Smith; born in 1821. Their partnership appears to have... | 1796 - 1876 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Sheffield, Isaac | ![]()
Little is
known about the life of Isaac Sheffield, yet he left a substantial body of
easily recognizable work. His usual subjects, painted during the 1830s and
early 1840s, were sea captains and their families from the bustling Connecticut
port of New London and nearby towns.
The
artist's father, Captain Isaac Sheffield, was a shipmaster who... | 1798 - 1845 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |