Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Stanton, Lucy May | 1875 - 1931 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 | |
| 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 |
| Stark, Otto |
Otto Stark
(1859–1926) was an American Impressionist painter who was considered to
be a member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana artists. Stark's work most clearly
showed the influence of Impressionism, and he often featured children in his
work.
He began
his career as a commercial woodcarver's apprentice in Indianapolis until an
ankle injury... | 1859 - 1926 | Anonymous | 11/17/2012 |
| Stearns, Junius Brutus |
Junius
Brutus Stearns (born Lucius Sawyer Stearns) (1810, Arlington, VT — 1885,
Brooklyn, NY ) was an American painter best known for his five part Washington
Series (1847–1856).[1]
He was member
of the National Academy of Design for several decades and member of its
Council. His painting The Millennium was submitted as credentials for... | 1810 - 1885 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| Stearns, William |
William
Stearns has not been positively identified, but is believed to have been active
circa 1830 to 1840. The name comes from the inscription on the National
Gallery's Bowl of Fruit (1953.5.34), which reads PAINTED BY (at lower left)
WILLIAM STEARNS (at lower right), and was probably applied with a stamp. There
are two other known pictures by... | Born 1830 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
