Artists

Samuel Isham (1855–1914) was an American portrait and figure painter, born in New York. He graduated from Yale in 1875 and studied law, but after being admitted to the bar he turned to art and studied in Paris at the Académie Julian. He exhibited at both Paris salons and at the larger American exhibitions, and became a member of the...

John Frederick Peto (May 21, 1854 – November 23, 1907) was an American trompe l'oeil ("fool the eye") painter who was long forgotten until his paintings were rediscovered along with those of fellow trompe l'oeil artist William Harnett. Although Peto and the slightly older Harnett knew each other and painted similar subjects, their careers...

Walter Launt Palmer was the nineteenth century’s most celebrated painter of snow scenes. The son of the sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer, Walter was surrounded by great art and artists at an early age. He trained with the noted Hudson River School landscapist Frederic Church and exhibited at the National Academy of Design before embarking on a...

Nothing but the name, given in the inscription as D. G. Stouter, / Artist, is known about the artist who created the National Gallery's painting, On Point (1980.62.68). However, the source he copied has been identified as an 1854 Gleason's Pictorial article on grouse shooting, which is accompanied by a print almost identical to Stouter's painting....

Frank F. English (1854 - 1922) Frank F. English was born in Indiana in 1854. In the early 1880s, he studied for five years in the evening classes of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His instructors included Thomas Eakins, James P. Kelly and Thomas Anshutz. However, English's reputation primarily rests with his outstanding facility as...

Born January 1, 1854, in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. His father was an architect. Moved with the family to Columbus, Ohio, 1864. Studied and associated with artists John H. Witt, Frederick S. Church, Frank Miller, and Professor Schroeder. Studied at the Art Students League of New York with Charles H. Davis. In Toledo, Ohio, 1875–77, and visited,...

Soren Emil Carlsen (October 19, 1853 – January 2, 1932, New York City, U.S.[2]) was an American Impressionist painter who emigrated to the United States from Denmark.[3] While he became known for his still lifes and has been described as "The American Chardin," he branched out later in his career and also became known for landscapes...

Thomas Alexander Harrison (January 17, 1853, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – October 13, 1930) was an American marine painter who spent much of his career in France. Career He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, then joined a United States government survey expedition on the Pacific coast. Beginning in 1878, he...

John Francis Murphy (December 11, 1853 - January 30, 1921), American landscape painter. Biography He was born at Oswego, New York and first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1876, and was made an associate in 1885 and a full academician two years later. He became a member of the Society of American Artists (1901) and of the American...

Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. During 1894 he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University), and after...

Landscape painter William Lamb Picknell is especially famed for the quality of light in his plein-air painting, which was often glaringly intense, clear, and crisp. His inborn worship of nature was amply nourished by several American masters including esteemed Hudson River School and Tonalist painter George Inness, painter Robert Wylie, and...

Henry Webster Rice was a professional watercolourist and teacher.  Born in Pownal, Maine in 1853, he died in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1934.  By 1885, he was a pupil of Ross Sterling Turner (1847-1915).  He was also an oil painter of genre scenes and landscapes, although he painted mostly marine views of boats and fishermen.  He taught the aritst...

Theodore Robinson (July 3, 1852 – April 2, 1896) was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American artists to take up impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting Giverny and developing a close friendship with Claude Monet. Several of his works are considered masterpieces of...

James Carroll Beckwith (September 23, 1852 – October 24, 1917) was an American landscape, portrait and genre painter whose Impressionist style led to his recognition in the late nineteenth century as a prominent figure in American art. Biography Carroll Beckwith, as he preferred to be known, was born in Hannibal, Missouri on 23 September 1852,...

As a young man, Beaman had a studio on Tremont Street in Boston.  Although Beaman studied at the Lowell Institute and in Paris in the late 1870s, his preference was for a more rural lifestyle.  He moved to Northfield, Massachusetts where he lived with a hermit atop the mountain back of Northfield village.  In coming down to the village he passed...

Franklin Stanwood was born in the Portland Alms House and shortly thereafter was adopted by Captain Gideon Stanwood. He was self-taught and developed a very linear style, which accorded well with the ship portraits for which he is best known.  He also painted "house portraits" and landscapes.  He was a sailor by profession and perhaps went to...

Thomas Dewing was born on May 4, 1851, in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts. As a child he was interested in both drawing and in playing the violin; this early interest in music would later reappear in the themes of many of his paintings. By 1872, after a period of apprenticeship in a lithography shop, Dewing was listing his profession as "artist." He...

During the mid-nineteenth century, before America had truly established its claim to artistic originality, American artists were seduced by the fascinating Parisian art scene.  During the latter half of the nineteenth century an important group of American artists congregated in France, among them Mary Cassatt, James Abbot MacNeill Whistler –...

Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (November 2, 1850 – February 2, 1921) was a Danish-born American maritime artist known as the "Audubon of Steam Vessels".[1] Biography Jacobsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Jacobsen attended the Royal Academy of Design before heading across the Atlantic Ocean.[1] He arrived in the United States in 1871 and...

Levi Wells Prentice (18 December 1851 – 28 November 1935) was an American still life and landscape painter. Prentice was associated with the Hudson River School, a group of artists known throughout art circles. According to the book Nature Staged by Barbara L. Jones, Prentice followed a self-prescribed educational path, begun by the Hudson River...

Jean Paul Selinger (1850-1909) and Emily Selinger (1848-1927), husband and wife, had summer art studios at the Glen House and the Crawford House.  Born in Boston, Jean Paul studied at the Lowell Institute and in 1875 he went to Germany to study at the Munich Academy with Wilhelm Leibl.  Upon returning, he opened an art studio in Providence, Rhode...

Thomas Bigelow Craig (1849–1924) was an American landscape painter[1] from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] He is known for his paintings depicting cows (and occasionally sheep[3]) in summer environments.[3][4] Craig's landscapes often featured meadows and streams.[4] The animals in his earlier paintings did not take up a large part of the canvas...

Dwight William Tryon (August 13, 1849 – July 1, 1925) was an American landscape painter in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work was influenced by James McNeill Whistler, and he is best-known for his landscapes and seascapes painted in a tonalist style. Biography Tryon was born in Hartford, Connecticut. His father was killed in a gun...

Clement Rollins Grant was a painter-etcher who was born in 1849 in Freeport, Maine. He studied in England in 1867, before setting up studios at 112 West Street in Boston (1882-) and Broadway & 33 rd Street and 80 Washington Square, New York City (1883-) and he rapidly became recognized as a competent realist who specialized in human genre...

Edwin Howland Blashfield (December 5, 1848 – October 12, 1936), an American artist, was born in New York City. He was a pupil of Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat in Paris beginning in 1867, and became (1888) a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. For some years a genre painter, he later turned to decorative work, where his academic...

Frank Duveneck (October 9, 1848 – January 3, 1919) was an American figure and portrait painter. Youth Duveneck was born in Covington, Kentucky, the son of German immigrant Bernard Decker. Decker died when Frank was only a year old and his widow remarried Joseph Duveneck. By the age of fifteen Frank had begun the study of art under the tutelage...

Lilla Cabot Perry (January 13, 1848—February 28, 1933) was an American artist who worked in the Impressionist style, rendering portraits and landscapes in the free form manner of her mentor, Claude Monet. Perry was an early advocate of the French Impressionist style and contributed to its reception in the United States. Perry's early work was...

Toby Edward Rosenthal (15 March 1848 in New Haven, Connecticut – 23 December 1917 in Munich) was an American painter. Biography Moving to San Francisco with his parents in 1855, he there studied painting under Fortunato Arriola. In 1865 he went to Munich, where he was a pupil of the Royal Academy under Strachuber, Karl Raupp and Karl Theodor...

Charles Henry Francis Turner [1] (7 August 1848 - 24 November 1908) was an American watercolourist and oil painter of landscapes, portraits, illustrations, and genre scenes, who from 1877 studied with Otto Grundmann (1844–1890), founder of the "Boston School", at Boston Museum of Fine Arts School.[2] Turner was a member of the Unity Art Club and...