Artists
Name | Info | Years
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Sullivan, M.A. | Active ca. 1868 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
Sargent, John Singer | Active ca. 1870 - 1925 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 | |
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 |
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 |
Sharples, James | ![]()
James Sharples (1751 or 1752 in Lancashire – 26 February
1811 in New York [1]) was an English portrait painter and pastelist,
who moved to the United States in 1794. He first exhibited at the Royal
Academy in 1779.
History
James was
first intended for the Catholic priesthood, but became an artist instead.[3] Sharples headed a family... | 1751 - 1811 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
Steward, Joseph | ![]()
Joseph Steward (1753–1822) was a prominent American artist.
Early years
Joseph Steward was born on July 6, 1753. He was the son of Joseph and Jane (Wilson) Steward of Upton, Massachusetts. Stewart went to Dartmouth College, graduating in 1780.
Joseph Steward continued his studies under the guidance of Reverend Doctor Levi Hart of Preston,... | 1753 - 1822 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
Stuart, Gilbert | ![]()
Gilbert
Charles Stuart (born Stewart) (December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828) was an
American painter from Rhode Island.
Gilbert
Stuart is widely considered to be one of America's foremost portraitists.[2] His best known work, the unfinished portrait of George
Washington that is sometimes referred to as The Athenaeum, was begun in 1796
and never... | 1755 - 1828 | igrkio | 04/08/2012 |
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 |
Sully, Lawrence | 1769 - 1804 | Anonymous | 02/20/2012 | |
Sargent, Henry | ![]()
Henry
Sargent (baptized November 25, 1770 — February 21, 1845), American
painter and military man, was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He was one of
seven children born to Daniel and Mary (Turner) Sargent. He was the brother of
author Lucius Manlius Sargent, a nephew of American Revolutionary War soldier
Paul Dudley Sargent,[1] and a... | 1770 - 1845 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |