Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Salmon, Robert |
Robert
Salmon was born in Whitehaven, a port situated on the northwest coast of
England. Although his artistic beginnings are unknown, his career can be
divided into two periods. Between 1800 and 1828 he lived in England and
Scotland, and his work faithfully recorded the environs of Liverpool and
Greenock. Salmon's style at this time reflected the... | 1775 - 1845 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Sargent, Henry |
Henry
Sargent (baptized November 25, 1770 — February 21, 1845), American
painter and military man, was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He was one of
seven children born to Daniel and Mary (Turner) Sargent. He was the brother of
author Lucius Manlius Sargent, a nephew of American Revolutionary War soldier
Paul Dudley Sargent,[1] and a... | 1770 - 1845 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| 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 |
| Savage, Edward |
Edward
Savage (November 26, 1761 – July 6, 1817) was an American portrait
painter and engraver. He was born in Princeton, Mass., and at first worked as a
goldsmith, also practicing engraving. Although seemingly untrained in painting,
he came into prominence in 1790 through his portrait of George Washington,
intended as a gift to Harvard... | 1761 - 1817 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
