Junius Brutus Stearns was born on July 2, 1810 in Arlington, Vermont. His name at birth was Lucius Sawyer Stearns. Stearns married in 1835 and had one daughter and four sons. Two of his sons were... Read full biography
Junius Brutus Stearns was born on July 2, 1810 in Arlington, Vermont. His name at birth was Lucius Sawyer Stearns. Stearns married in 1835 and had one daughter and four sons. Two of his sons were named for artists, Raphael Corregio and Michael Angelo. His other two sons were named Junius Brutus Jr.... Read full biography
Junius Brutus Stearns was born on July 2, 1810 in Arlington, Vermont. His name at birth was Lucius Sawyer Stearns. Stearns married in 1835 and had one daughter and four sons. Two of his sons were named for artists, Raphael Corregio and Michael Angelo. His other two sons were named Junius Brutus Jr. and Sylvester Lucius Stearns. He became a noted 19th-century painter of portraits, genre, and historical subjects. He was a student at the National Academy of Design around 1838. He began exhibiting... Read full biography
Junius Brutus Stearns was born on July 2, 1810 in Arlington, Vermont. His name at birth was Lucius Sawyer Stearns. Stearns married in 1835 and had one daughter and four sons. Two of his sons were named for artists, Raphael Corregio and Michael Angelo. His other two sons were named Junius Brutus Jr. and Sylvester Lucius Stearns. He became a noted 19th-century painter of portraits, genre, and historical subjects. He was a student at the National Academy of Design around 1838. He began exhibiting there and throughout his career was closely associated with this institution, and by 1849 he was an associate member and one year later a full member. At this time he traveled to Paris and London to study. After his return he established himself in... Read full biography
Junius Brutus Stearns was born on July 2, 1810 in Arlington, Vermont. His name at birth was Lucius Sawyer Stearns. Stearns married in 1835 and had one daughter and four sons. Two of his sons were named for artists, Raphael Corregio and Michael Angelo. His other two sons were named Junius Brutus Jr. and Sylvester Lucius Stearns. He became a noted 19th-century painter of portraits, genre, and historical subjects. He was a student at the National Academy of Design around 1838. He began exhibiting there and throughout his career was closely associated with this institution, and by 1849 he was an associate member and one year later a full member. At this time he traveled to Paris and London to study. After his return he established himself in New York City and Brooklyn, and between 1851 and 1865 he served as recording secretary of the National... Read full biography
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The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
2021
Peterson, Dr. Larry Len
528 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal
2003
Rasmussen, William M.S.; Robert S. Tilton
252 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Ayers, William S
256 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Grand Illusions History Painting in America
1988
Gerdts, William & Thistlewaite
174 pages
The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914
1987
Simon, Robin
255 pages (color)
Domestic Bliss Family Life in American Painting 1840-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Edwards, Lee M; Jan Seidler Ramirez; Timothy Anglin Burgard
160 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Long Island Landscape Painting 1820-1920 (Volume 1)
1985
Pisano, Ronald G
167 pages (color)
Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute
1984
Hassrick, Peter H
127 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939
1981
Gerdts, William H
292 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Richards, Jane L
66 pages (color)
Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900
1978
Williams, Herman Warner Jr
248 pages (color)
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 pages (color)
American Still Life Painting
1971
Gerdts, William; Russell Burke
264 pages (color)
American Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1
1966
North Carolina Museum of Art
118 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures
1941
New York Historical Society
367 pages
Exhibition of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1935
De Young Memorial Museum
120 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Notes on American Artists 1754-1820 Portraits & Sculpture in New York Hist Society