Artists
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Stock, Joseph Whiting | ![]()
Joseph
Whiting Stock was born on 30 January 1815 in Springfield, Massachusetts. In
1826 an oxcart fell on him, paralyzing him from the waist down, and in 1832, on
the advice of his physician, he began to study art so that he might make a
living. His teacher was Franklin White, a pupil of Chester Harding (1792-1866).
In 1834,
when Stock was... | 1815 - 1855 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Scott, John White Allen | ![]()
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 - 1907 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
Stanley, Abram Ross | ![]()
Although
the details of Abram Ross Stanley's life are not certain, he was probably born
March 16, 1816, in Salisbury, Herkimer County, New York, to Jedediah
and Prudence Stanley, who had moved there six years earlier from New Hampshire.
Based on his middle name, the artist is sometimes identified as a descendant of
Betsy Ross, but there is no... | 1816 - 1875 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
Shaver, Samuel | 1816 - 1878 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Staigg, Richard Morrell | ![]()
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 - 1881 | Anonymous | 04/12/2012 |
Sachs, Lambert | ![]()
Lambert
Sachs, a painter of portraits, landscapes, and history pictures, was born in
Mannheim, Germany, on 5 November 1818. He was the son of Anna Margarete Diel and Carl Bartolomaus Sachs, a professor at the Mannheim Lyceum where
Lambert studied for five years.
Sachs began
his education in drawing and painting in April 1832 at the painting museum... | 1818 - 1903 | 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 |
Snell, George | 1820 - 1893 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Sheys, William P. | Died 1821 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
Sonntag, William Louis | ![]()
William Sonntag was one of the central figures of the Hudson River School. Primarily self-taught, his early landscapes were executed during painting excursions from Cincinnati to the Ohio River Valley and in Kentucky and West Virginia (1856 and 1859).
Born in East Liberty, Pennsylvania March 2, 1822, it is believed Sonntag studied for a short period... | 1822 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/24/2012 |