Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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Stephens, Alice Barber | 1858 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
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 |
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 |
Spaeth, Marie Haughton | ![]() Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia School of Design. She traveled to Europe and studied in Spain, France and Italy. Until 1922, she lived primarily in New Hampshire, but then made her permanent home in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1924, she became a member of the National... | 1883 - 1937 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Spencer, Frederick R. | ![]()
The
portraitist Frederick Randolph Spencer was born June 7, 1806 in Lennox, New
York, one of four children of the lawyer and first postmaster of Canastota,
General Ichabod Smith Spencer (1780-1857), and Mary
Pierson Spencer (1785-1865). He evinced an early interest for art, and at the
age of fifteen saw an exhibition of portraits by Ezra Ames at... | 1806 - 1875 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Snell, George | 1820 - 1893 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Smith, Xanthus Russell | 1839 - 1929 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Smith, Walter Granville | ![]()
Walter
Granville Smith was born in Bellport, New York on January 26, 1870 and he died
in Granville, New York in 1938. He was a painter and illustrator who studied
with W. Satterlee, C. Beckwith and Willard Metcalf at
the Arts Student League in New York City and in Paris at the Academie Julian. He was a member of the American Water
Color Society,... | 1870 - 1938 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Smith, Thomas | ![]()
Thomas
Smith was a seventeenth-century Anglo-American mariner and artist. He is the
earliest painter in New England for whom a specific canvas can
be—identified his self-portrait (fig. 1). Based on stylistic similarities
to that painting, five additional surviving works have been attributed to
Smith. Besides his role as an artist, interpretations... | 1650 - 1691 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Smith, Russell | 1812 - 1896 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |