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
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| Morton, Henry Jackson | 1807 - 1890 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Cranch, John | 1807 - 1891 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Dodge, John Wood | 1807 - 1893 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Chapman, John Gadsby | ![]()
John Gadsby
Chapman (December 3, 1808 – November 28, 1889) was an American artist
famous for The Baptism of Pocahontas, which was commissioned by the United
States Congress and hangs in the United States Capitol rotunda.
Life and career
John Chapman
was born in 1808 in Alexandria, Virginia. Chapman began his study of art in
Philadelphia for two... | 1808 - 1889 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Francis, John F. | ![]()
John F.
Francis (Philadelphia, Aug 13, 1808 – Jeffersonville, Nov 15, 1886) was
an American painter, primarily of still lifes.
He was born
in Philadelphia. Predominantly self-taught as an artist, he worked until 1845
as a portrait painter in central and eastern Pennsylvania. Francis's portraits
reveal his early fascination with the most minute... | 1808 - 1886 | Anonymous | 06/11/2012 |
| Eastman, Seth | ![]()
Seth
Eastman (1808–1875) and his second wife Mary Henderson Eastman (1818
– 24 February 1887[1]) were instrumental in recording Native American
life. Eastman was an artist and West Point graduate who served in the US Army,
first as a mapmaker and illustrator. He had two tours at Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory; during the second,... | 1808 - 1875 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Chambers, Thomas | ![]()
Thomas
Chambers was born in London in 1808 and emigrated to
the United States in 1832. A painter of both landscapes and marine scenes,
Chambers did not confine his artistic subjects to views that he knew firsthand
but made liberal use of both his imagination and popular engraved images.
Chambers is known to have looked not only to the Englishman... | 1808 - 1866 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Sartain, John | ![]()
John
Sartain (October 24, 1808 - October 25, 1897) was an artist who pioneered
mezzotint engraving in the United States.[1]
Biography
John
Sartain was born in London, England on October 24, 1808. He learned line
engraving, and produced several of the plates in William Young Ottley's Early
Florentine School (1826). In 1828, he began to do... | 1808 - 1897 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Werner, Carl Friedrich Heinrich | ![]()
Carl
Friedrich Heinrich Werner (1808–1894) was a German watercolor painter.
Born in
Weimar, Werner studied painting under Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld in Leipzig.
He switched to studying architecture in Munich from 1829 to 1831, but
thereafter returned to painting. He won a scholarship to travel to Italy, where
he ended up founding a studio in... | 1808 - 1894 | Anonymous | 11/12/2012 |
| Kidd, Joseph Bartholomew | ![]()
Kidd was
born in 1808, perhaps in Edinburgh. Nothing is known of his parentage or
education, but he became a pupil of the Reverend John Thomson of Duddingston. He was a founder Associate of the Royal
Scottish Academy in 1826 and was elected a full Academician in 1829. In 1830 he
was commissioned by John James Audubon to paint copies of one hundred... | 1808 - 1889 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Freeman, James Edward | ![]()
James
Edward Freeman (1808–November 21, 1884) was an American painter,
diplomat, and author. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York
City and in Rome, Italy. He expatriated to Rome in 1841 when he was appointed
U.S. Consul to Ancona, in the Papal States.
Early life and career in
America
Freeman was
born on Indian Island, in New... | 1808 - 1884 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Cook, Nelson | ![]()
Nelson Cook
(rarely, Cooke, seen esp in
Canada) was the son of furniture-maker Joseph Cook (b. ca 1768, Wallingford, CT
- d. 22 Dec 1864) and Mary Ann Tolman (Tallman?), b.
Guilford, MA; the parents moved to the Ballston Spa/Malta area of Saratoga
County around 1800 from Wallingford. Cook's birthdate
given here is derived from his death... | 1808 - 1892 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Moise, Theodore Sidney | ![]()
MOÏSE, THEODORE SYDNEY (1808–1883), U.S. painter; grandson of
Abraham *Moïse. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he
received instruction in painting from his aunt, Penina
*Moïse, a part-time artist. Nothing is known
about his further education. In 1835, Moïse
opened a studio in Charleston, advertising his services as a portrait... | 1808 - 1885 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
| Frazer, Oliver | 1808 - 1864 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
| Paradise, John Wesley | 1809 - 1862 | igrkio | 03/27/2012 | |
| Huge, Jurgan Frederick | ![]()
Jurgan
Frederick Huge was born in Hamburg in 1809. Of the approximately fifty known
examples of his work, most are renderings of sailing and steam vessels, which
recall the artist's youth as a seaman. Huge (at that time spelling his given
names Jurgen Friedrich) came to America as a young
man. By 1830 he was established as the owner of a store in... | 1809 - 1878 | Alexander Lusher | 05/14/2012 |
| Osgood, Charles | ![]()
Charles
Osgood was born in Salem, MA on February 24, 1809. It is not known from whom Osgood
received his training, but he made his living as a portraitist until 1863. It can be conjectured that the advent of
the daguerreotype and the photograph created serious inroads on the business of
the average portraitist and caused Osgood and others to... | 1809 - 1890 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| Thompson, Cephas Giovanni | 1809 - 1888 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
| Volkmar, Charles | 1809 - 1892 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
| Russell, Mrs. Moses B. | ![]()
Clarissa Peters was born in Februay 1809 in Andover, Massachusetts. While little is known about her early life, it is believed that she taught at the Blue Hill Academy in Blue Hill, Maine. By 1835 she was working in Boston as a miniaturist and giving instruction. In 1839 she married Moses Baker Russell, who was also a miniaturist and instructor.
Even... | 1809 - 1854 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |





