The Sherman Limner, whose appellation derives from his portraits of the prominent Sherman family of New Haven, Connecticut, was active circa the late years of the eighteenth century, between 1785 and 1790. Works by The Sherman Limner share certain characteristics which make possible the attribution of a number of paintings. The artist's style is...

James Crawford Thom (March 22, 1835–February 16, 1898) was an American painter. Born in New York City, he studied at an artist colony in Perth Amboy, New Jersey along with Louis Comfort Tiffany of stained glass fame. He also studied with Edouard Frere, among others. He painted "By the River-Side" "Returning from the Wood", "Tired of Waiting",...

Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (in German: Reichsgraf von Rumford), FRS (March 26, 1753 – August 21, 1814) was an Anglo-American physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. He also served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Loyalist forces in America during...

The family records that William John Thomson had one son, William Thomas Thomson, who had a son Spencer Campbell Thomson, but there the trail ends. Any leads about the early Thomson family history would be welcomed by the Thomson family. William John Thomson was originally taken to London where he learned to paint and exhibited at the Royal...

Miss Fanny R. Thurston was active in the period 1876 to 1885.  An F. Thurston (presumably Fanny) exhibited in the 1876 exhibition of the American Society of Painters in Watercolor.  Fanny R. Thurston exhibited at the Boston Art Club in 1880, 1881, and 1882.  She also exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1885 giving her address as New...

Törmer : Benno Frederick T. (Not Thörmer how Nagler writes) Painter, was born on 4 July 1804 in Dresden-Neustadt, the second son of the Royal. Saxon. Captain and drawing teacher at the Engineering Academy of Dresden born. Because he wanted to devote himself to painting, he entered the Art Academy there on 6 November 1819th Already in the next, as...

Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott is listed as a marine painter, photographer, and teacher. He was born in England where he studied both civil engineering and painting.  While in London, he studied under Philip Mitchell and at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolors.  He came to the United States in 1871 and settled in Boston.  A specialist...

John Trumbull (June 6, 1756 – November 10, 1843) was an American artist during the period of the American Revolutionary War and was notable for his historical paintings. His Declaration of Independence was used on the reverse of the two-dollar bill. Early years Trumbull was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1756, to Jonathan Trumbull, who...

Allen Tucker (1866–1939) was an American artist. Biography He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines of Columbia University in 1887 with a degree in architecture and worked as a draftsman at McIlvaine and Tucker.[1] He died in 1939. References ^ a b "Allen Tucker (1866-1939)". Gleason Fine Art....

Walter Ufer (July 22, 1876 – August 2, 1936) was an American artist based in Taos, New Mexico. His most notable work focuses on scenes of Native American life, particularly of the Pueblo Indians. Ufer was born of German immigrant parents and raised in Kentucky. After an apprenticeship as a lithographer, he went to Europe where he was a...

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.

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...

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...

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...

James Walker, born on June 3, 1819 in Northamptonshire, England, was a historical painter whose works can be found in the permanent collections of the U. S. War Department Building, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the California Historical Society and the Tennessee State Museum among others. Not much is known of his training, although it has...

William Allen Wall was born to a prominent Quaker family of New Bedford. His father was the master of a Quaker school, ran a hardware store, and promoted cultural activities in the city. Wall seems to have inherited from his father an appreciation of art and may have received instruction from him in watercolor and pencil technique. His father...

William Guy Wall (1792 – 1864) was an American painter of Irish birth. Wall was born in Dublin in 1792 and arrived in New York in 1812. He was already a well trained artist and soon became well known for his sensitive watercolor views of the Hudson River Valley and surroundings. Some of these watercolors were published as engravings by John Hill...

Walter Bowman Russell (May 19, 1871 – May 19, 1963) was an American polymath known for his achievements as a painter, sculptor, author and builder and less well known as a natural philosopher and for his unified theory in physics and cosmogony. He posited that the universe was founded on a unifying principle of rhythmic balanced interchange. This...

Marcus Waterman graduated from Brown University and then moved to New York City, where he had a studio from 1857 to 1874. He became an associate member of the National Academy in 1861. After 1874, Waterman made his home in Boston and spent much of his time around New England in Vermont and Cape Cod. From 1879 to 1884, the artist traveled to...

Susan Catherine Moore Waters (May 18, 1823—July 7, 1900), self-taught painter of animals and resident of Bordentown, New Jersey. Biography On May 18, 1823, Susan Catherine Moore Waters was born in Binghamton, New York. A self-taught artist with little formal training, Waters did attend seminary school in Friendsville, Pennsylvania, where she...

A leading figure in New York’s turn-of-the-century art establishment, Harry Watrous had a successful career as a painter and administrator. After training in the French academic mode at the Academie Julian in Paris, Watrous returned to New York and won recognition for his stylized female portraits, elegant still lifes, and enchanting...

Baltimore boasted a thriving art community in the second half of the nineteenth century. Even in the midst of the Civil War, the Maryland Academy provided professional training for aspiring artists and the Maryland Art Association regularly exhibited artists' works. By far, the most popular of Baltimore's numerous successful artists at mid-century...

Gottlieb Daniel Paul Weber (19 January 1823-12 October 1916) was a German artist. He was born in Darmstadt. He studied art in Frankfurt, and in 1848 came to the United States, settling in Philadelphia. In 1858 he went to Darmstadt, where he was appointed court painter. Among those of his works that are owned in the United States are “A Scene in...

Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903), American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Léon Bonnat and of Jean-Léon Gérôme, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes. Weeks' parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston and as such...

Robert Walter Weir (June 18, 1803 - May 1, 1889) was an American artist, best known as an educator, and as an historical painter. He was considered an artist of the Hudson River school,[1] was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829, and an instructor at the United States Military Academy. Among his better-known works are: The Embarkation...

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...

William Ruthven Wheeler was basically a portrait painter, but he did produce some landscapes.   His first instruction came at an early age from an itinerant miniature painter, and he began his profession at the age of fifteen.  At the age of 28 he studied for a short time in Detroit under Alvan Bradish.  He moved to Hartford, Connecticut about 1862...