Artists

Name
InfoYearsUpdated byDate
Taylor, Frank Walter 1874 - 1921Anonymous05/19/2012
Teakes, Anne Died 1827Anonymous05/14/2012
Teed, Douglas Arthur 1860 - 1929Anonymous12/25/2012
Thayer, Abbott Handersonnotes
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 - 1921Anonymous11/12/2012
The Beardsley Limnernotes
The Beardsley Limner was an itinerant artist who worked along the old Boston Post Road, in Connecticut and Massachusetts, from about 1785 to 1805. He executed some of the most striking naive portraits in New England, and was given the name The Beardsley Limner based on his handsome paintings of Elizabeth and Hezekiah Beardsley, c....
Born 1785Anonymous05/19/2012
The Conant Limnernotes
Approximately eleven portraits can be attributed to this unidentified painter. His identification as The Conant Limner is derived from the last name of four sitters who constitute the largest family group by his hand. The Conants lived in Sterling, Massachusetts, where several of this limner's works remain. Although likenesses by this hand have...
Born 1813Anonymous05/19/2012
The Denison Limnernotes
The identity of the artist who created the Denison family portraits has long eluded scholars. His sitters are all from Stonington, Connecticut, and their portraits are part of the tradition of Connecticut portraiture that flourished from c. 1790/1810. One of the first to suggest an identity for The Denison Limner was Ralph Thomas of the New Haven...
Born 1790Anonymous05/19/2012
The Freake Limner Born 1670Anonymous12/22/2012
The Gansevoort Limnernotes
The designation "Gansevoort Limner" was given to the unkown painter of a stylistically coherent group of portraits depicting members of the Gansevoort family. The majority of his sitters were children, and several of his portraits are inscribed in either Dutch or Latin. Mary Black has identified The Gansevoort Limner as Pieter Vanderlyn, which some...
Born 1730Anonymous04/12/2012
The Pollard Limnernotes
The Pollard Limner, identified on the basis of his portrait of Ann Pollard, 1721, was active in the Boston area from around the last decade of the seventeenth century through the first third of the eighteenth century. So far some twenty paintings by this hand have been identified. Stylistically, all of The Pollard Limner's portraits are related by...
Born 1690Anonymous04/05/2012
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