Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shaw, Joshua | 
Joshua Shaw
(1776-1860) was an Anglo-American artist and inventor.[1]
Early life
Shaw was
born in Ellesmere Port, England in 1776 and was orphaned at the age of 7. To
survive he worked for a local farmer as a bird scarer. During the three years
he spent doing this work he discovered his artistic talent and began drawing
the animals he... | 1776 - 1860 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Sheffield, Isaac |
Little is
known about the life of Isaac Sheffield, yet he left a substantial body of
easily recognizable work. His usual subjects, painted during the 1830s and
early 1840s, were sea captains and their families from the bustling Connecticut
port of New London and nearby towns.
The
artist's father, Captain Isaac Sheffield, was a shipmaster who... | 1798 - 1845 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Silva, Francis A. |
Francis
Augustus Silva painted coastal, beach, and river scenes that represent the
culmination of the landscape mode, dubbed “luminism”
by modern scholars, characterized by broad, horizontal compositions with low
horizons, delicate color, and crystalline light. Silva was a native of New York
City and the son of a barber. Apprenticed to a sign... | 1835 - 1886 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
| Santry, Daniel |
Daniel
Francois Santry was born in Boston, MA in 1858. He studied with Boulanger and
Lefebvre. He exhibited at the Paris
Salon in 1886 and at the Boston Art Club from 1889 to 1891. The Boston Art Club exhibition records
record his address as 12 West Street, Boston, MA. Painting titles that he exhibited do not
describe White Mountain... | 1858 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Shapleigh, Frank Henry |
Frank H.
Shapleigh was born in Boston and studied painting at the Lowell Institute of
Drawing. In 1867-1868, he sailed to
Europe where he studied in the studio of Emile Lambinet (1815-1877).
Shapleigh painted
throughout New England, in St. Augustine, Florida, California, and in
Europe. For sixteen years, from
1877 to 1893, he was... | 1842 - 1906 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| 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 |
| Smillie, George Henry |
George
Henry Smillie (1840 - 1921), brother of artist James David Smillie, was a
painter.
He studied
under his father, James Smillie, and under James McDougal Hart, and became a member
of the National Academy of Design in 1882. Like his brother, he painted both in
oils and in water colour.
His
favourite subjects were scenes along the New England... | 1840 - 1921 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| 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 |
| Smillie, James David |
James David Smillie (January 16, 1833 - September 14, 1909), American artist, was born in New York City.
His father, James Smillie (1807-1885), a Scottish engraver, emigrated to New York in 1829, was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1851, did much, with his brother William C. (1813-1908), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an... | 1833 - 1909 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Scott, John White Allen |
John White
Allen Scott (1815-1907) or John W.A. Scott was an artist in Boston,
Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1][2] He worked for Pendleton's Lithography
early in his career. In the 1840s he started a lithography business in
partnership with Fitz Hugh Lane ("Lane & Scott's
Lithography").[3][4] Around 1852 he kept a studio in Boston's... | 1815 - 1907 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
