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...

Jeremiah Theus (sometimes Jeremiah Theüs[note 1]) (April 5, 1716 – May 17, 1774) was a Swiss-born American painter, primarily of portraits. He was active mainly around Charleston, South Carolina, in which city he remained almost without competition for the bulk of his career.[1] Early life and career Theus was born in the city of Chur, in the...

Alfred Thompson trained as a lawyer but turned to painting shortly before the Civil War, painting both landscapes and portraits.  He studied in Baltimore and in Paris.  He studied with Gleyke in 1861-62 and also with E. Lambinet and A. Pasisi in the period 1862 to 1868. He served as an illustrator of war scenes with Harper's Weekly and...

Cephas Thompson (July 1, 1775 – November 6, 1856) was a successful, self-taught, early nineteenth-century portrait painter in the United States, who was born, died, and lived most of his life in Middleborough, Massachusetts. Thompson's father fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Thompson married Olive Leonard on March 18, 1802. His son, Cephas...

Jerome Thompson's genre paintings on rustic themes, which were immensely popular in the late nineteenth century, have received new attention recently.  This revived interest focuses on the unusual distinction of Thompson's landscape settings, which often dominate the pictures' simple foreground scenes of rural work, play or dalliance.  Thompson's...

Domenico Tojetti (1807–1892) was an Italian American painter. Born in Rocca di Papa, near Rome, the artist frequented the Roman circle of the Torlonia Princes, providing frescos in the ballroom of Villa Torlonia under the direction of his teacher, Francesco Coghetti. The artist provided also frescoes in the churches of Rome, including the...

John Toole, whose name was originally O'Toole, was born in Dublin, Ireland, on 26 November 1815 to Jane O'Toole and Michael O'Toole, a chemistry teacher. After his father's death as a result of an explosive experiment, John immigrated to the United States in 1827, along with his brother and sister. They were sent to live with an aunt and uncle who...

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...

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...

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",...

James G. Tyler was one of the most notable maritime painters and illustrators of his day. His popularity can be gauged by the fact that his works were often forged. It is estimated that in New York City in 1918, more than 100 works falsely carried the artist's name.  Tyler was born in 1855 in Oswego, New York. At age 15, Tyler, already fascinated by...

Expatriate painter Charles Frederick Ulrich documented the ordinary life of immigrants, craftsmen, and other rarely portrayed subjects in late nineteenth-century Europe and America in interior genre scenes, or scenes of everyday life, that emphasize the subtle effects of daylight. Ulrich was a native of New York City and the son of a photographer....

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Painter. Born in Baltimore, MD on Jan. 21, 1864. When Elmer was quite young, the Wachtel family moved to Lanark, IL where he worked as a hired hand and taught himself to play the violin. At age 18, he moved to San Gabriel, CA where his brother had married the sister of artist Guy Rose and was managing the large Rose ranch. He continued playing...

The National Gallery's painting Fruit and Baltimore Oriole (1980.62.47) was inscribed on the reverse Painted by Wagguno, 1858, but the inscription is no longer visible. It is recorded on the accession sheet of the donors (E. W. and B. C. Garbisch), but no photographs are known. No information on the artist has been discovered to date. [This is an...

The portraitist Samuel Lovett Waldo was born April 6, 1783, in Windham, Connecticut, one of eight children born to farmer Zacheus Waldo and his wife Esther Stevens Waldo. At the age of sixteen he went to Hartford and took drawing lessons from an obscure painter named Joseph Steward. He set up a studio there in 1803, but found few clients and...

William Aiken Walker (March 11, 1839 – January 3, 1921) is an American artist who was born to an Irish Protestant father and a mother of South Carolina background in Charleston, South Carolina in 1839. In 1842, when his father died, Walker's mother moved the family to Baltimore, Maryland, where they remained until returning to Charleston in...