Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Smedley, William Thomas |
William
Thomas Smedley (March 26, 1858 – 1920), American artist, was born in
Chester County, Pennsylvania, of a Quaker.
He worked
on a newspaper, then studied engraving and art in Philadelphia, in the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and—after making a tour of the
South Seas—in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens. He settled in New York... | 1858 - 1920 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Selinger, Emily Harris | Emily Harris Selinger graduated from the Providence (Rhode Island) High School, then attended the Cooper Institute of Design in New York City. She also studied with Amalia Rocchi in Florence and Margaret Roosenboom in Holland. She married the painter, Jean Paul Selinger, in 1882. Emily Selinger was a painter, an author and poet, who was active in... | 1848 - 1927 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Selinger, Jean Paul | Jean Paul Selinger (1850-1909) and Emily Selinger (1848-1927), husband and wife, had summer art studios at the Glen House and the Crawford House. Born in Boston, Jean Paul studied at the Lowell Institute and in 1875 he went to Germany to study at the Munich Academy with Wilhelm Leibl. Upon returning, he opened an art studio in Providence, Rhode... | 1850 - 1909 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| 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 |
