Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarbell, Edmund Charles | 
Edmund
Charles Tarbell (April 26, 1862 – August 1, 1938) was an American
Impressionist painter. He was a member of the Ten American Painters. His work
is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery and the
National Academy of Design, among others.
Early life and education
Edmund
Charles Tarbell, called "Ned" as a boy, was... | 1862 - 1938 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Twachtman, John Henry |
John Henry Twachtman (August 4, 1853 – August 8, 1902) was an
American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes, though his
painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twachtman's style of American Impressionism to be among the
more personal and experimental of his generation. He was a member of "The
Ten",... | 1853 - 1902 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Tanner, Henry Ossawa |
Henry Ossawa Tanner (June 21, 1859 – May 25, 1937) was an
African American artist best known for his style of painting. He was the first
African American painter to gain international acclaim.[1][2]
Education
In 1879
Tanner enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
His decision to attend the school came at an... | 1859 - 1937 | Anonymous | 11/03/2013 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
