Artists

NameInfoYearsUpdated byDate
Stephens, Alice Barber 1858 - 1932Anonymous05/22/2012
Stearns, Williamnotes
William Stearns has not been positively identified, but is believed to have been active circa 1830 to 1840. The name comes from the inscription on the National Gallery's Bowl of Fruit (1953.5.34), which reads PAINTED BY (at lower left) WILLIAM STEARNS (at lower right), and was probably applied with a stamp. There are two other known pictures by...
Born 1830Anonymous05/22/2012
Stanwood, Franklinnotes
Franklin Stanwood was born in the Portland Alms House and shortly thereafter was adopted by Captain Gideon Stanwood. He was self-taught and developed a very linear style, which accorded well with the ship portraits for which he is best known.  He also painted "house portraits" and landscapes.  He was a sailor by profession and perhaps went to...
1852 - 1888Anonymous05/22/2012
Spaeth, Marie Haughtonnotes
Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia School of Design. She traveled to Europe and studied in Spain, France and Italy.  Until 1922, she lived primarily in New Hampshire, but then made her permanent home in Princeton, New Jersey.  In 1924, she became a member of the National...
1883 - 1937Anonymous05/22/2012
Spencer, Frederick R.notes
The portraitist Frederick Randolph Spencer was born June 7, 1806 in Lennox, New York, one of four children of the lawyer and first postmaster of Canastota, General Ichabod Smith Spencer (1780-1857), and Mary Pierson Spencer (1785-1865). He evinced an early interest for art, and at the age of fifteen saw an exhibition of portraits by Ezra Ames at...
1806 - 1875Anonymous05/22/2012
Snell, George 1820 - 1893Anonymous05/22/2012
Smith, Xanthus Russell 1839 - 1929Anonymous05/22/2012
Smith, Walter Granvillenotes
Walter Granville Smith was born in Bellport, New York on January 26, 1870 and he died in Granville, New York in 1938. He was a painter and illustrator who studied with W. Satterlee, C. Beckwith and Willard Metcalf at the Arts Student League in New York City and in Paris at the Academie Julian. He was a member of the American Water Color Society,...
1870 - 1938Anonymous05/22/2012
Smith, Thomasnotes
Thomas Smith was a seventeenth-century Anglo-American mariner and artist. He is the earliest painter in New England for whom a specific canvas can be—identified his self-portrait (fig. 1). Based on stylistic similarities to that painting, five additional surviving works have been attributed to Smith. Besides his role as an artist, interpretations...
1650 - 1691Anonymous05/22/2012
Smith, Russell 1812 - 1896Anonymous05/22/2012
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