Artists
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Savage, Edward | ![]()
Edward
Savage (November 26, 1761 – July 6, 1817) was an American portrait
painter and engraver. He was born in Princeton, Mass., and at first worked as a
goldsmith, also practicing engraving. Although seemingly untrained in painting,
he came into prominence in 1790 through his portrait of George Washington,
intended as a gift to Harvard... | 1761 - 1817 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Schamberg, Morton Livingston | ![]()
Morton
Livingston Schamberg (October 15, 1881 - October 13, 1918) was an American
painter and photographer. He was one of the first American artists to explore
the aesthetic qualities of industrial subjects.[1] Schamberg is considered a
pioneer of the Precisionism art movement, and one of the first American
adopters of Cubist... | 1881 - 1918 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Schreyvogel, Charles | ![]()
Charles Schreyvogel (January 4, 1861-January 27, 1912) was a
painter of Western subject matter in the days of the disappearing frontier. Schreyvogel was especially interested in military life.
He spent
most of his life as an impoverished artist. He suddenly became recognized and
earned what seemed like overnight fame. He was born in New York City.... | 1861 - 1912 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Schumacher, William | ![]()
Born in
Belgium in 1870, William E. Schumacher and his family immigrated to the United
States when he was an infant. Raised and educated in Boston, Schumacher
returned to Europe to study art, entering the Dresden Academy in 1888. In 1890
he transferred to the well-known Académie Julian in Paris, where he came
into contact with the artists of the... | 1870 - 1930 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Schussele, Christian | ![]()
Christian
Schussele (born Guebwiller, Alsace, 16 April 1824; died Merchantville, New
Jersey, 20 August 1879) was an artist. He studied under Adolphe Yvon and Paul
Delaroche 1842-1848 and then came to the United States. Here, for some time, he
worked at chromolithography which he had also pursued in France. Later he
devoted himself almost entirely... | 1824 - 1879 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Scott, Anna Page | ![]()
Miss Anna
Page Scott's consignment to history will he within the first line of American
Impressionists - those who flourished from about 1890 to 1910. It will also be
favorably noted that she chose to pass on this new approach to seeing and
expression as an instructor with the Mechanics Institute.
Her
philosophy - indeed her passion - was in the... | 1863 - 1925 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Seavey, Julian R. | ![]()
Julian Ruggles Seavey was one of the
most prestigious artists to have called Hamilton his home. He was born in
Boston, Massachusetts, on April 24, 1857 and studied art in New York, Paris,
Rome, and Germany before coming to Hamilton in 1879. During the time he lived
here, Seavey was a major force in promoting local art
and culture.
Seavey
was a... | 1857 - 1940 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
Sebron, Hippolyte Victor Valentin | 1801 - 1897 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
Senior, C.F. | ![]()
No other
works by C. F. Senior, who signed his name so prominently and clearly in the
corner of the National Gallery's painting The Sportsman's Dream (1980.62.21),
have ever been discovered. He is believed to have been active in 1881 or later.
A genre painter by the same name is listed in Lipman
and Winchester's Primitive Painters in America as... | Born 1881 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Shannon, Sir James Jebusa | ![]()
Sir James
Jebusa Shannon (1862 - 1923), Anglo-American artist, was born in Auburn, New
York, and at the age of eight was taken by his parents to Canada.
When he was
sixteen, he went to England, where he studied at South Kensington, and after
three years won the gold medal for figure painting. His portrait of the Hon.
Horatia Stopford , one of the... | 1862 - 1923 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |