Artists
Name
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Taylor, Frank Walter | 1874 - 1921 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
Teakes, Anne | Died 1827 | Anonymous | 05/14/2012 | |
Teed, Douglas Arthur | 1860 - 1929 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 | |
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 |
The Beardsley Limner | ![]()
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 1785 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
The Conant Limner | ![]()
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 1813 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
The Denison Limner | ![]()
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 1790 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
The Freake Limner | Born 1670 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 | |
The Gansevoort Limner | ![]()
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 1730 | Anonymous | 04/12/2012 |
The Pollard Limner | ![]()
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 1690 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |