Artists
Name
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Sheys, William P. | Died 1821 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
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 |
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 |
Shaver, Samuel | 1816 - 1878 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Shattuck, Aaron Draper | ![]()
Aaron
Draper Shattuck (1832-1928) was an American painter of the White Mountain
School. He was born in Francestown, New Hampshire. A second-generation artist
affiliated with the Hudson River School, Shattuck differed from most of his
contemporaries in that he never studied abroad, and appears to have spent his
entire life in New... | 1832 - 1928 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Sharples, James | ![]()
James Sharples (1751 or 1752 in Lancashire – 26 February
1811 in New York [1]) was an English portrait painter and pastelist,
who moved to the United States in 1794. He first exhibited at the Royal
Academy in 1779.
History
James was
first intended for the Catholic priesthood, but became an artist instead.[3] Sharples headed a family... | 1751 - 1811 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
Sharp, Joseph H. | 1859 - 1953 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
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 |
Shannon, Sir James Jebusa | ![]()
Sir James
Jebusa Shannon (1862 - 1923), Anglo-American artist, was born in Auburn, New
York, and at the age of eight was taken by his parents to Canada.
When he was
sixteen, he went to England, where he studied at South Kensington, and after
three years won the gold medal for figure painting. His portrait of the Hon.
Horatia Stopford , one of the... | 1862 - 1923 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
Shackleton, Charles | 1856 - 1920 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |