Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volk, Douglas | 
Douglas
Volk, named Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk (23 February 1856 - 1935)[1] was an American portrait and landscape painter. He
helped establish the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. After 1904 he and his
wife Marion created an artists' retreat at their family home, Hewnoaks, in Maine. She became active in the production of
woolen textiles and rugs... | 1856 - 1935 | Anonymous | 03/25/2012 |
| Vail, Eugene Lawrence |
Son of a
French mother and an American father, Eugene Vail maintained strong ties with
both of these countries throughout his life. He was born 29 September 1857 in
St. Servan, France and, as a young man, studied both
in Paris and New York. Although he showed an early aptitude and enthusiasm for
art, his father required that he receive a practical... | 1857 - 1934 | igrkio | 03/27/2012 |
| Vanderlyn, John |
John
Vanderlyn (October 18, 1775 – September 23, 1852) was an American
neoclassicist painter.
Biography
Vanderlyn
was born at Kingston, New York. He was employed by a print-seller in New York,
and was first instructed in art by Archibald Robinson (1765–1835), a
Scotsman who was afterwards one of the directors of the American Academy of... | 1775 - 1852 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Vedder, Elihu |
Elihu Vedder (February 26, 1836 – January 29, 1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet, born in New York City.
He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (deluxe edition, published by Houghton Mifflin).
Biography
Elihu Vedder was born February 26,... | 1836 - 1923 | Anonymous | 11/12/2012 |
| Vinton, Frederick Porter |
Frederic
Porter Vinton (January 29, 1846 – May 19, 1911), sometimes spelled
"Frederick", was an American portrait painter from Bangor, Maine. He
grew up in Chicago, and moved to Boston in 1861[1] For twenty years he worked
as a bookkeeper, during which he studied art under William Rimmer at the Lowell
Institute. Soon after studying at the... | 1846 - 1911 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Voll, F. Usher |
De Voll’s paintings include scenes of Providence and New
York City, often showing the marine activities of the Hudson River and the New
York harbor
Biography
Frederick
Usher De Voll was an American landscapist who
depicted scenes of New York City and his home town of Providence, Rhode Island.
He exhibited frequently throughout his lifetime at... | 1873 - 1941 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Vanderlyn, Pieter |
Pieter
Vanderlyn (* 1687 , † 1778 in Shawangunk ) was an American painter of
Dutch origin. He is the Patroon Painters counted.
Vanderlyn
in 1718 emigrated from the Netherlands, probably via Curacao to New York one.
It is unclear where he then resided, presumably in Kingston on the Hudson River
, 130 km north of New York , or Albany .
He... | 1687 - 1778 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Vonnoh, Robert |
Robert
William Vonnoh (September 17, 1858 – 1933) was an American Impressionist
painter known for his portraits and landscapes. He traveled extensively between
the East Coast and France, more specifically the artists colony Grez-sur-Loing.
He studied in
Paris at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph
Lefebvre. He taught at... | 1858 - 1933 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| Valdenuit, Thomas Bluget De |
Thomas
Bludget de Valdenuit (1763 - 1846). Thomas Bludget de
Valdenuit was the business partner of Saint Memin, and would often execute the drawings that were later
engraved. Their first advertisement for the "celebrated Physiognotrace of Paris" was issued in 1797 in New
York.
| 1763 - 1846 | Anonymous | 06/05/2012 |
| Vail, Aramenta Dianthe | 1820 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
