Artists
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Symons, George Gardner |
A landscape
and marine artist, George Symons was one of America's more noted plein-air painters who combined styles of impressionism and
realism. His works are cited for their energy and simplicity, and he often did
panoramic views.
He was born
in Chicago, Illinois in 1861, with the name of George Gardner Simon, but he
changed his last name to... | 1863 - 1930 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
Svinin, Pavel Petrovich | 1787/88 - 1839 | Alexander Lusher | 03/18/2012 | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Sully, Lawrence | 1769 - 1804 | Anonymous | 02/20/2012 | |
Sullivan, M.A. | Active ca. 1868 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
Stuart, Jane |
Jane Stuart
was born sometime between 1808 and 1812, the youngest child of artist Gilbert
Stuart and his wife, Charlotte Coates. Gilbert Stuart was the famed New England
painter of European kings, American presidents, prominent citizens and a
particularly well-known depiction of Sir William Grant known as The Skater.
Stuart's George Washington... | 1812 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Stuart, Gilbert |
Gilbert
Charles Stuart (born Stewart) (December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828) was an
American painter from Rhode Island.
Gilbert
Stuart is widely considered to be one of America's foremost portraitists.[2] His best known work, the unfinished portrait of George
Washington that is sometimes referred to as The Athenaeum, was begun in 1796
and never... | 1755 - 1828 | igrkio | 04/08/2012 |
Strong, Elizabeth |
Beloved
Carmel artist and early-day resident of Monterey, Elizabeth Strong is best
known for her small paintings of animals. Since she specialized in paintings of
animals (especially bird dogs), she was sometimes called “the Rosa
Bonheur of America.”
Born in Westport, CT on February 1, 1855,
she was the daughter of a Congregational minister.... | 1855 - 1941 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Strobel, Louisa Catherine | 1803 - 1883 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
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 |
Strean, Maria Judson | 1866 - 1949 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Strahalm, Franz | 1879 - 1935 | Anonymous | 07/20/2012 | |
Stouter, D.G. |
Nothing but
the name, given in the inscription as D. G. Stouter, / Artist, is known about
the artist who created the National Gallery's painting, On Point (1980.62.68).
However, the source he copied has been identified as an 1854 Gleason's
Pictorial article on grouse shooting, which is accompanied by a print almost
identical to Stouter's painting.... | Born 1854 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Story, Julian | 1857 - 1919 | Anonymous | 07/08/2012 | |
Story, George H. | 1835 - 1923 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
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 |
Stone, Anstiss | 1778 - 1807 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
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 |
Stiepevich, Vincent G. | 1841 - after 1910 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 | |
Stewart, Julius L. |
Julius
LeBlanc Stewart (September 6, 1855, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - January 5,
1919, Paris, France), was an American artist who spent his career in Paris. A
contemporary of fellow expatriate painter John Singer Sargent, Stewart was
nicknamed "the Parisian from Philadelphia."[1]
His father,
the sugar millionaire William Hood Stewart, moved the... | 1855 - 1919 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
Steward, Joseph |
Joseph Steward (1753–1822) was a prominent American artist.
Early years
Joseph Steward was born on July 6, 1753. He was the son of Joseph and Jane (Wilson) Steward of Upton, Massachusetts. Stewart went to Dartmouth College, graduating in 1780.
Joseph Steward continued his studies under the guidance of Reverend Doctor Levi Hart of Preston,... | 1753 - 1822 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
Sterner, Albert | 1863 - 1946 | Anonymous | 10/14/2012 | |
Stephens, Alice Barber | 1858 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Steele, Theodore Clement |
Theodore
Clement Steele (September 11, 1847-July 24, 1926) was an American Impressionist
painter known for his Indiana landscapes. Theodore Steele's paintings are in
many public collections, including those of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Indiana University Art Museum in
Bloomington, Indiana (for... | 1847 - 1926 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
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 |
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 |
Stark, Otto |
Otto Stark
(1859–1926) was an American Impressionist painter who was considered to
be a member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana artists. Stark's work most clearly
showed the influence of Impressionism, and he often featured children in his
work.
He began
his career as a commercial woodcarver's apprentice in Indianapolis until an
ankle injury... | 1859 - 1926 | Anonymous | 11/17/2012 |
Stanwood, Franklin |
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 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Stanton, Lucy May | 1875 - 1931 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 | |
Stanley, John Mix |
John Mix
Stanley (January 17, 1814 – April 10, 1872) was an artist-explorer, an
American painter of landscapes, and Native American portraits and tribal life.
Born in the Finger Lakes region of New York, he started painting signs and
portraits as a young man, but in 1842 traveled to the American West to paint
Native American life. In 1846 he... | 1814 - 1872 | Anonymous | 04/12/2012 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Spencer, Lilly Martin |
Lilly
Martin Spencer (born Angelique Marie Martin) (November 26, 1822 – May 22,
1902) was one of the most popular and widely reproduced American female genre
painters in the mid-nineteenth century. She painted domestic scenes, women and
children in a warm happy atmosphere. Although she did have an audience for her
work Spencer had difficulties... | 1822 - 1902 | Anonymous | 04/12/2012 |
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 |
Spaeth, Marie Haughton | 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 - 1937 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
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 |
Sommer, William | 1867 - 1949 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 | |
Sommer, Otto | Born 1850 | Anonymous | 12/21/2012 | |
Snyder, William Henry | 1829 - 1910 | Anonymous | 04/12/2012 | |
Snell, George | 1820 - 1893 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Smith, Xanthus Russell | 1839 - 1929 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Smith, Walter Granville |
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 - 1938 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Smith, Thomas |
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 - 1691 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Smith, Russell | 1812 - 1896 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Smith, Rufus Way | 1840 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Smith, Royall Brewster |
Born in
Buxton, Maine, 7 August 1801, the artist was probably named after the Smith
family's physician, Dr. Royal Brewster. As the eleventh of fourteen children of
John McCurdy and Elizabeth McLellan Smith, Royall
successfully survived a childhood of limited financial means and some illness
to become a successful artisan.
Between
1830 and 1837,... | 1801 - 1855 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Smith, Phebe A. | Born 1840 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |