Artists
Name
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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 |