Artists
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Shute, Ruth Whittier | ![]()
Ruth W.
Shute and her physician husband Dr. Samuel A. Shute were itinerant portrait
painters known for their individual and collaborated watercolor portraits of
individuals living in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and
northern New York State beginning in 1827.
It appears
Samuel became very ill around 1834-35 and was unable to... | 1803 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Sexton, Samuel H. | 1813 - 1890 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Shaver, Samuel | 1816 - 1878 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Scarborough, William H. | ![]()
William
Harrison Scarborough was born on November 7, 1812 in Dover, Tennessee. While
his family heritage was English, the Scarboroughs had been living in America
for two generations at the time of William's birth. Growing up, William's
parents encouraged each of their thirteen children to pursue their educations,
and at sixteen he left home to... | 1812 - 1871 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Schenck, William H. | Died 1864 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Snyder, William Henry | 1829 - 1910 | Anonymous | 04/12/2012 | |
Stone, William Oliver | ![]()
William
Oliver Stone (September 26, 1830 – September 15, 1875) was an American
portrait painter.
Stone was
born in Derby, Connecticut. In the late 1840s he studied under Nathaniel
Jocelyn in New Haven, and then moved to New York in 1851. He became fairly
prominent there, and was elected an associate member of the National Academy in
1856, with... | 1830 - 1875 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
Sheys, William P. | Died 1821 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
Shirlaw, Walter | ![]()
Walter
Shirlaw (August 6, 1838 – December 30, 1909) was a Scottish-American
artist.
Shirlaw was
born in Paisley, Scotland, and moved to the United States with his parents in
1840. He worked as a bank-note engraver, and his work was first exhibited at
the National Academy in 1861.
He was
elected an academician of the Chicago Academy of Design in... | 1838 - 1909 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
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 |