Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sartain, John | 
John
Sartain (October 24, 1808 - October 25, 1897) was an artist who pioneered
mezzotint engraving in the United States.[1]
Biography
John
Sartain was born in London, England on October 24, 1808. He learned line
engraving, and produced several of the plates in William Young Ottley's Early
Florentine School (1826). In 1828, he began to do... | 1808 - 1897 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| 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 |
| Smith, Allen |
Allen
Smith, Jr., met with considerable success in the Midwest as a portraitist. He
studied briefly with William D. Parisen (1800-1832) while attending the antique
classes at the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York. Smith also attended
the antique class of the National Academy of Design, where he won a prize in
1833. He exhibited at the... | 1810 - 1890 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Sully, Thomas Wilcocks |
Thomas Wilcocks Sully, born in Philadelphia on January 3, 1811,
was one of six children of the portrait painter Thomas Sully and his wife,
Sarah Annis Sully, who was his brother
Lawrence's widow. The younger Thomas' middle name was probably derived from his
father's patron Benjamin Chew Wilcocks, a leading
Philadelphia merchant. After studying art... | 1811 - 1847 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Sprague, Isaac | Isaac Sprague (September 5, 1811–1895) was a self-taught landscape, botanical, and ornithological painter. He was America's best known botanical illustrator of his day.
Sprague was born in Hingham, Massachusetts and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter.
In 1843, Sprague served as an assistant to John James Audubon on an ornithological... | 1811 - 1895 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| 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 |
| Stuart, Jane |
Jane Stuart
was born sometime between 1808 and 1812, the youngest child of artist Gilbert
Stuart and his wife, Charlotte Coates. Gilbert Stuart was the famed New England
painter of European kings, American presidents, prominent citizens and a
particularly well-known depiction of Sir William Grant known as The Skater.
Stuart's George Washington... | 1812 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Smith, Russell | 1812 - 1896 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Sexton, Samuel H. | 1813 - 1890 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| 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 |
