Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Simmons, Freeman Willis | 1859 - 1926 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Smillie, James H. | 1807 - 1885 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Smith, Allen |
Allen
Smith, Jr., met with considerable success in the Midwest as a portraitist. He
studied briefly with William D. Parisen (1800-1832) while attending the antique
classes at the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York. Smith also attended
the antique class of the National Academy of Design, where he won a prize in
1833. He exhibited at the... | 1810 - 1890 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
