Artists
Name | Info | Years
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Smith, Xanthus Russell | 1839 - 1929 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Schafer, Frederick Ferdinand | 1839 - 1927 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Shirlaw, Walter | ![]()
Walter
Shirlaw (August 6, 1838 – December 30, 1909) was a Scottish-American
artist.
Shirlaw was
born in Paisley, Scotland, and moved to the United States with his parents in
1840. He worked as a bank-note engraver, and his work was first exhibited at
the National Academy in 1861.
He was
elected an academician of the Chicago Academy of Design in... | 1838 - 1909 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Story, George H. | 1835 - 1923 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Silva, Francis A. | ![]()
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 - 1886 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
Smillie, James David | ![]()
James David Smillie (January 16, 1833 - September 14, 1909), American artist, was born in New York City.
His father, James Smillie (1807-1885), a Scottish engraver, emigrated to New York in 1829, was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1851, did much, with his brother William C. (1813-1908), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an... | 1833 - 1909 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Shattuck, Aaron Draper | ![]()
Aaron
Draper Shattuck (1832-1928) was an American painter of the White Mountain
School. He was born in Francestown, New Hampshire. A second-generation artist
affiliated with the Hudson River School, Shattuck differed from most of his
contemporaries in that he never studied abroad, and appears to have spent his
entire life in New... | 1832 - 1928 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Scott, Emily Maria Spaford | 1832 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Stone, William Oliver | ![]()
William
Oliver Stone (September 26, 1830 – September 15, 1875) was an American
portrait painter.
Stone was
born in Derby, Connecticut. In the late 1840s he studied under Nathaniel
Jocelyn in New Haven, and then moved to New York in 1851. He became fairly
prominent there, and was elected an associate member of the National Academy in
1856, with... | 1830 - 1875 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
Stearns, William | ![]()
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 1830 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |