Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarborough, William H. | 
William
Harrison Scarborough was born on November 7, 1812 in Dover, Tennessee. While
his family heritage was English, the Scarboroughs had been living in America
for two generations at the time of William's birth. Growing up, William's
parents encouraged each of their thirteen children to pursue their educations,
and at sixteen he left home to... | 1812 - 1871 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Sprague, Isaac | Isaac Sprague (September 5, 1811–1895) was a self-taught landscape, botanical, and ornithological painter. He was America's best known botanical illustrator of his day.
Sprague was born in Hingham, Massachusetts and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter.
In 1843, Sprague served as an assistant to John James Audubon on an ornithological... | 1811 - 1895 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Sully, Thomas Wilcocks |
Thomas Wilcocks Sully, born in Philadelphia on January 3, 1811,
was one of six children of the portrait painter Thomas Sully and his wife,
Sarah Annis Sully, who was his brother
Lawrence's widow. The younger Thomas' middle name was probably derived from his
father's patron Benjamin Chew Wilcocks, a leading
Philadelphia merchant. After studying art... | 1811 - 1847 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Smith, Allen |
Allen
Smith, Jr., met with considerable success in the Midwest as a portraitist. He
studied briefly with William D. Parisen (1800-1832) while attending the antique
classes at the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York. Smith also attended
the antique class of the National Academy of Design, where he won a prize in
1833. He exhibited at the... | 1810 - 1890 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Stearns, Junius Brutus |
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 - 1885 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| Sartain, John |
John
Sartain (October 24, 1808 - October 25, 1897) was an artist who pioneered
mezzotint engraving in the United States.[1]
Biography
John
Sartain was born in London, England on October 24, 1808. He learned line
engraving, and produced several of the plates in William Young Ottley's Early
Florentine School (1826). In 1828, he began to do... | 1808 - 1897 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Smillie, James H. | 1807 - 1885 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Shumway, Henry Colton |
SHUMWAY,
Henry Cotton, portrait painter, was born in Middletown, Conn., July 4, 1807. He
attended the public schools; served as a clerk in his father's office until his
twenty-first birthday, and at an early age produced pencil sketches, mostly
portraits, of considerable promise. He attended the antique and life classes of
the National Academy of... | 1807 - 1884 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |
| Saunders, George Lethbridge | 1807 - 1863 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Spencer, Frederick R. |
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 - 1875 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
