Museums
| Name | Country | State | City | Updated by | Date
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| Forbes Magazine Collection | USA | NY | New York | Anonymous | 02/10/2012 |
| H.W. Fichter Kunsthandel | Germany | Frankfurt Am Main | Anonymous | 02/10/2012 | |
| Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture | USA | NY | New York | Anonymous | 02/10/2012 |
| Judy Lenett, Silver Spring Farm | USA | CT | Ridgefield | Anonymous | 02/10/2012 |
| McMahan, Virgil E. & Robert H. Laible | USA | D.C. | Washington | Anonymous | 02/10/2012 |
| Memorial Hall--W. P. Wilstach Coll. | USA | PA | Philadelphia | Anonymous | 02/10/2012 |
| National Museum of Franco-American Cooperation | France | Blerancourt | Anonymous | 02/10/2012 | |
| Old State House Museum | USA | MA | Boston | Anonymous | 02/10/2012 |
| Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery | USA | PA | Reading | Anonymous | 02/10/2012 |
| Sellers, Charles Coleman | Unknown | Anonymous | 02/10/2012 |
Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
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| Koehler, Robert | ![]()
Robert
Koehler (November 28, 1850 - April 23, 1917) was a German-born painter and art
teacher who spent most of his career in the United States of America.
Biography
Koehler was
born in Hamburg; his family spelled their name Köhler until they moved to
Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1854. There he attended the historic German-English
Academy. He... | 1850 - 1917 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
| Koerner, William Henry Dethlef | ![]()
Wilhelm
Heinrich Detlev "Big Bill" Körner (November 1878– August 11, 1938), also
known as Wilhelm Heinrich Dethlef Koerner,
William HD Koerner, WHDK, or W.H.D. Koerner,[1] was a noted
illustrator of the American West whose works became known to new audiences when
his painting, nicknamed A Charge to Keep, was used as the cover image for... | 1878 - 1938 | Anonymous | 11/03/2013 |
| Kuemmel, Cornelia | 1863 - 1938 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
| Lacroix, Paul | ![]()
Paul LaCroix, an immigrant from France, appeared in New York
some time before 1855. Urban centers such as New York and Philadelphia
witnessed an influx of foreign artists at mid-century who left “to escape
the turmoil of the revolutions of 1848” (1). European immigrants such as LaCroix brought with them the Dutch, German, and French
traditions... | 1827 - 1869 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| Lambdin, George Cochran | ![]()
Born in Pittsburgh on January 6, 1830 and the son of James Lambdin. In the late 1830’s his family moved to Philadelphia and by 1849 George was exhibiting his first works at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1850 the family move to Germantown, just north of Philadelphia, and it was here that they would remain.
George traveled to Europe to... | 1830 - 1896 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Landis, John | 1805 - 1851 | Anonymous | 04/13/2012 | |
| Hensel, Salome | ![]()
The
attribution to Salome Hensel and date (1823) of the
National Gallery's To the Memory of the Benevolent Howard (1971.83.22), an
unsigned theorem painting, are based on a label that was once afixed to the reverse. It reads: "This painting was
done in 1823 by Salome Hensel eldest daughter of
George and Catherine Noon Hensel. Salome was
afterwards... | Born 1823 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Zeliff, Amzi Emmons | ![]()
Amzi Emmons Zeliff was born 11 April 1831, in Morris County, New Jersey, son of Daniel P. and Maria Van Houton Zeliff and a descendant of early Dutch settlers of Staten Island and New Jersey. He later may have moved to Essex County for a period, perhaps upon his marriage to Cornelia Harris.
Family members say that at one time he owned the White Horse... | 1831 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/02/2012 |
| Woodbury, Charles Herbert | ![]()
Charles
Herbert Woodbury (July 14, 1864—January 21, 1940), United States marine
painter, was born at Lynn, Massachusetts.
Biography
Charles H.
Woodbury was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, where his earliest work was part of
the oeuvre of the group later known as the Lynn Beach Painters. While an
undergraduate at MIT he became a regular exhibitor... | 1864 - 1940 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
| 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 |
| Woodward, John Douglas | ![]()
John
Douglas Woodward (12 July 1846 – 1924) was an American landscape artist
and illustrator described by Joseph Pennell as one of the country's
"best-known painters and illustrators".
He produced
hundreds of scenes of Europe, the Holy Land, and the United States, many of
which were reproduced in popular magazines of the day.[1]
Life and... | 1846 - 1924 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
| Wright, James Henry | 1813 - 1883 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 | |
| Wollaston, John | ![]()
John
Wollaston (active between 1742 and 1775) was an English painter of portraits
who was active in the British colonies in North America for much of his career.
He was one of a handful of painters to introduce the English Rococo style to
the American colonies.[1]
Biography
Little is
known of Wollaston's early life. He is believed to have been... | 1710 - 1775 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
| 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 |
| Woodville, Richard Caton | ![]()
Richard Caton Woodville (30 April 1825 – 13 August 1855) was
an American artist from Baltimore who spent his professional career in Europe,
after studying in Düsseldorf under the direction of Carl Ferdinand Sohn. He died of an overdose of morphine in London at the
age of 30.[1] He was the father of Richard Caton Woodville, Jr., also a noted... | 1825 - 1855 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
| Yelland, Raymond | 1848 - 1900 | Anonymous | 12/16/2012 | |
| 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 |
| Wores, Theodore | ![]()
Theodore Wores (August 1, 1859–September 11, 1939) was an
American painter born in San Francisco, son of Joseph Wores
and Gertrude Liebke. His father worked as a hat
manufacturer in San Francisco. Wores began his art
training at age twelve in the studio of Joseph Harrington, who taught him
color, composition, drawing and perspective. When the San... | 1859 - 1939 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| Wood, Thomas Waterman | ![]()
Thomas
Waterman Wood (November 12, 1823 – April 14, 1903) was an American
painter born in Montpelier, Vermont.
Origins
Thomas
Waterman Wood's father, John Wood, came to Montpelier from Lebanon, New Hampshire
in 1814. The Wood family was of Puritan stock, and it was from Lebanon that
John Wood, the father of the artist, married his wife Mary... | 1823 - 1903 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |






