Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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| Smith, John Rubens | 
John Rubens
Smith (January 23, 1775 London - August 21, 1849 New York City) was a
London-born painter, printmaker and art instructor who worked in the United
States.
Biography
Smith was
born in England where he first studied art with his father, John Raphael Smith,
a mezzotint engraver. He later studied art at the Royal Academy.
Smith
emigrated... | 1775 - 1849 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Steele, Theodore Clement |
Theodore
Clement Steele (September 11, 1847-July 24, 1926) was an American Impressionist
painter known for his Indiana landscapes. Theodore Steele's paintings are in
many public collections, including those of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Indiana University Art Museum in
Bloomington, Indiana (for... | 1847 - 1926 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| 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, 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 |
| Snyder, William Henry | 1829 - 1910 | Anonymous | 04/12/2012 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Scott, John White Allen |
John White
Allen Scott (1815-1907) or John W.A. Scott was an artist in Boston,
Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1][2] He worked for Pendleton's Lithography
early in his career. In the 1840s he started a lithography business in
partnership with Fitz Hugh Lane ("Lane & Scott's
Lithography").[3][4] Around 1852 he kept a studio in Boston's... | 1815 - 1907 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
