Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Schuyler Limner | 
The
designation "Schuyler Limner" or "Schuyler Painter" can be
applied to the anonymous maker, active circa 1717 to circa 1725, of some two
dozen early eighteenth-century portraits of subjects from the Albany, New York,
area. The name is derived from what appears to be the earliest and most
ambitious effort by the artist, the full-length portrait... | Born 1717 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| The Sherman Limner |
The Sherman
Limner, whose appellation derives from his portraits of the prominent Sherman
family of New Haven, Connecticut, was active circa the late years of the
eighteenth century, between 1785 and 1790. Works by The Sherman Limner share
certain characteristics which make possible the attribution of a number of
paintings. The artist's style is... | Born 1785 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |
| Theus, Jeremiah |
Jeremiah Theus (sometimes Jeremiah Theüs[note 1]) (April
5, 1716 – May 17, 1774) was a Swiss-born American painter, primarily of
portraits. He was active mainly around Charleston, South Carolina, in which
city he remained almost without competition for the bulk of his career.[1]
Early life and career
Theus was
born in the city of Chur, in the... | 1716 - 1774 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| 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 |
| 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, 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 |
| Thompson, Cephas |
Cephas
Thompson (July 1, 1775 – November 6, 1856) was a successful, self-taught,
early nineteenth-century portrait painter in the United States, who was born,
died, and lived most of his life in Middleborough, Massachusetts.
Thompson's
father fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Thompson married Olive Leonard on
March 18, 1802. His son, Cephas... | 1775 - 1856 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Thompson, Cephas Giovanni | 1809 - 1888 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
| 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 |
| Thomson, William John |
The family
records that William John Thomson had one son, William Thomas Thomson, who had
a son Spencer Campbell Thomson, but there the trail ends. Any leads about the
early Thomson family history would be welcomed by the Thomson family.
William
John Thomson was originally taken to London where he learned to paint and
exhibited at the Royal... | 1771 - 1845 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
