Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smibert, John | 
John
Smybert (or Smibert) (1688–1751), Scottish American artist, was born in
Edinburgh and died in Boston, Massachusetts.
Smibert began
drawing while apprenticed as a painter and plasterer, on moving to London he
worked as a painter of coach carriages and a copyist. He studied under Sir
James Thornhill at his academy, then travelled to Edinburgh... | 1688 - 1751 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| 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 |
| Sloan, Junius R. |
Junius'
connection with Kewanee began in 1853 when his parents purchased 500 acres in
Wethersfield and Kewanee townships. It was one year before the founding of
Kewanee, but parents Seymour and Drusilla Sloan certainly knew the railroad was
on its way and that their investment in Illinois farmland had a promising
future.
The Sloans
came from... | 1827 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Skynner, Thomas |
Virtually
nothing is known about Thomas Skynner, although a
significant body of work is now associated with his name. The attribution to Skynner of two pairs of portraits at the National Gallery
(John Stone, 1953.5.55; Eliza Welch Stone, 1953.5.56; Portrait of a Man,
1967.20.4; Portrait of a Woman, 1967.20.5) was made on the basis of... | Born 1840 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Simmons, Freeman Willis | 1859 - 1926 | 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 |
| Shute, Ruth Whittier |
Ruth W.
Shute and her physician husband Dr. Samuel A. Shute were itinerant portrait
painters known for their individual and collaborated watercolor portraits of
individuals living in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and
northern New York State beginning in 1827.
It appears
Samuel became very ill around 1834-35 and was unable to... | 1803 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Shumway, Henry Colton |
SHUMWAY,
Henry Cotton, portrait painter, was born in Middletown, Conn., July 4, 1807. He
attended the public schools; served as a clerk in his father's office until his
twenty-first birthday, and at an early age produced pencil sketches, mostly
portraits, of considerable promise. He attended the antique and life classes of
the National Academy of... | 1807 - 1884 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |
| 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 |
| Shilling, Alexander | 1859 - 1937 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
