Artists
Name | Info
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Stiepevich, Vincent G. | 1841 - after 1910 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 | |
Strean, Maria Judson | 1866 - 1949 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Sommer, William | 1867 - 1949 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 | |
Sterner, Albert | 1863 - 1946 | Anonymous | 10/14/2012 | |
Svinin, Pavel Petrovich | 1787/88 - 1839 | Alexander Lusher | 03/18/2012 | |
Sargent, John Singer | Active ca. 1870 - 1925 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 | |
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 |
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 |