Artists
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Thompson, Alfred Wordsworth | ![]()
Alfred
Thompson trained as a lawyer but turned to painting shortly before the Civil
War, painting both landscapes and portraits. He studied in Baltimore and in
Paris. He studied with Gleyke in 1861-62 and also with E. Lambinet
and A. Pasisi in the period 1862 to 1868.
He served
as an illustrator of war scenes with Harper's Weekly and... | 1840 - 1896 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Thompson, Jerome B. | ![]()
Jerome
Thompson's genre paintings on rustic themes, which were immensely popular in
the late nineteenth century, have received new attention recently. This revived interest focuses on the
unusual distinction of Thompson's landscape settings, which often dominate the
pictures' simple foreground scenes of rural work, play or dalliance. Thompson's... | 1814 - 1886 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
Thom, James Crawford | ![]()
James
Crawford Thom (March 22, 1835–February 16, 1898) was an American painter.
Born in New York City, he studied at an artist colony in Perth Amboy, New
Jersey along with Louis Comfort Tiffany of stained glass fame. He also studied
with Edouard Frere, among others. He painted "By
the River-Side" "Returning from the Wood", "Tired of
Waiting",... | 1835 - 1898 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Triscott, Samuel Peter Rolt | ![]()
Samuel
Peter Rolt Triscott is listed as a marine painter, photographer, and teacher.
He was born
in England where he studied both civil engineering and painting. While in London, he studied under Philip
Mitchell and at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolors. He came to the United States in 1871 and
settled in Boston. A specialist... | 1846 - 1925 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam | ![]()
Arthur
Fitzwilliam Tait (February 5, 1819 – April 28, 1905) was an American
artist who is known mostly for his paintings of wildlife. During most of his
career, he was associated with the New York City art scene.
Biography
Tait was
born in Lively Hall near Liverpool, England. At eight years old, because his
father went bankrupt he was sent to... | 1819 - 1905 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 |
Thayer, Abbott Handerson | ![]()
Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849 – May 29, 1921) was
an American artist, naturalist and teacher. As a painter of portraits, figures,
animals and landscapes, he enjoyed a certain prominence during his lifetime, as
indicated by the fact that his paintings are part of the most important U.S.
art collections. During the last third of his... | 1849 - 1921 | Anonymous | 11/12/2012 |
Tanner, J.G. | ![]()
J. G.
Tanner is identified by the inscription on the National Gallery's painting
Engagement Between the "Monitor" and "Merrimac"
(1953.5.36). No biographical information or additional works by J. G. Tanner
have been found, but it is known that the painting is based on a color
lithograph issued in 1891. Tanner was active, therefore, in that year or... | Born 1891 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |
Tavernier, Jules | ![]()
Jules
Tavernier (1844-1889) was born in Paris in 1844 and died in Honolulu, Hawaii,
in 1889. He studied with the French painter, Félix Joseph Barrias
(1822-1907), but left France in the 1870s, never to return. Tavernier was
employed as an illustrator by Harper's Magazine, which sent him on assignment
to California in the 1870s. Eventually he... | 1844 - 1889 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Tucker, Allen | ![]()
Allen
Tucker (1866–1939) was an American artist.
Biography
He was born
in Brooklyn, New York in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines of
Columbia University in 1887 with a degree in architecture and worked as a
draftsman at McIlvaine and Tucker.[1] He died in 1939.
References
^ a b "Allen Tucker (1866-1939)". Gleason Fine Art.... | 1866 - 1939 | Anonymous | 04/30/2012 |
Thompson, Benjamin | ![]()
Sir
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (in German: Reichsgraf von Rumford), FRS
(March 26, 1753 – August 21, 1814) was an Anglo-American physicist and
inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th
century revolution in thermodynamics. He also served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in
the Loyalist forces in America during... | 1753 - 1814 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |