An early and very successful American portrait painter, he was born in Windham, Connecticut into an established Yankee family who recognized and encouraged their son's obvious talent. He was sent at... Read full biography
An early and very successful American portrait painter, he was born in Windham, Connecticut into an established Yankee family who recognized and encouraged their son's obvious talent. He was sent at the age of sixteen to study art in Hartford with Joseph Steward, a retired minister who did... Read full biography
An early and very successful American portrait painter, he was born in Windham, Connecticut into an established Yankee family who recognized and encouraged their son's obvious talent. He was sent at the age of sixteen to study art in Hartford with Joseph Steward, a retired minister who did painting. Waldo did some sign painting and then opened a portrait studio in Hartford. He met John Rutledge of South Carolina who invited him to go there to paint commission portraits, and he was so successful... Read full biography
An early and very successful American portrait painter, he was born in Windham, Connecticut into an established Yankee family who recognized and encouraged their son's obvious talent. He was sent at the age of sixteen to study art in Hartford with Joseph Steward, a retired minister who did painting. Waldo did some sign painting and then opened a portrait studio in Hartford. He met John Rutledge of South Carolina who invited him to go there to paint commission portraits, and he was so successful that the profits financed three years of study in England with Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley. Under West, he got much exposure to other American artists and to those especially skilled who were members of the Royal Academy. In 1809, he... Read full biography
An early and very successful American portrait painter, he was born in Windham, Connecticut into an established Yankee family who recognized and encouraged their son's obvious talent. He was sent at the age of sixteen to study art in Hartford with Joseph Steward, a retired minister who did painting. Waldo did some sign painting and then opened a portrait studio in Hartford. He met John Rutledge of South Carolina who invited him to go there to paint commission portraits, and he was so successful that the profits financed three years of study in England with Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley. Under West, he got much exposure to other American artists and to those especially skilled who were members of the Royal Academy. In 1809, he settled in New York and continuing to be inspired by West, worked hard to encourage and nurture the American Academy of Fine Arts. He also... Read full biography
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About Samuel Lovett Waldo: Books
Books & Publications (83)
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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
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Artists of the Litchfield Hills (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Austin, Robert Michael
132 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815
1994
Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque
628 pages
Catalogue of The Collection: Museum, St. Petersburg Florida
1994
Lesko, Diane, (Ed)
366 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
Neo-Classicism in America: Inspiration and Innovation. 1810-1840 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Garrett, Wendell (essay); Stuart Feld (Intro)
136 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914
1987
Simon, Robin
255 pages (color)
The Figure in American Art 1764-1983 Three Simultaneous Exhibitions: Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Baur, John I.H.
72 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)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure
1984
Harding, Jonathan P
185 pages
American Portrait Prints Tenth Annual American Print Conference
1984
Reaves, Wendy Wick
285 pages
National Gallery of Art, Washington New and Revised Edition (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Walker, John
606 pages (color)
American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods
1982
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
100 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
The Art of Healing, Medicine and Science in American Art (Birmingham Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Gerdts, William H
120 pages (color)
Handbook of the Collections: Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University)
1981
Leavitt, Thomas W. (Editor)
106 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Painting
1981
San Diego Museum of Art
240 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
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)
Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1978
William Rockhill Nelson G of A
72 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930
1977
Rhode Island School of Design
241 pages
America as Art
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
320 pages (color)
The Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of Collections
1975
Buckley, Charles E
377 pages (color)
A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975 (Exhibition catalog)
1975
National Academy of Design
262 pages
First Flowers of Our Wilderness (University of Arizona Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Steadman, William E
143 pages (color)
American Paintings (in) The Rhode Island Historical Society
1974
Goodyear, Frank H
116 pages (color)
A History of American Painting
1973
Bennett, Ian
240 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
The American Portrait: From the Death of Stuart to Sargent
1973
Hennessey, William J
63 pages
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
American Portraits 1800-1850 Early Portraits in the Collection of Union College
1972
Feigenbaum, Rita
155 pages
19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Howat, John K (others)
220 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
A Nineteenth Century Gallery of Distinguished Americans
1969
Stewart, Robert G
93 pages
Arts of the Young Republic The Age of William Dunlap (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Dickson, Harold E
234 pages
Twenty-Five American Masterpieces (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
32 pages (color)
The Connecticut Artists Collection
1968
Mattatuck Historical Society
84 pages
The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875 (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Public Education Association
64 pages (color)
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
American Paintings for Public and Private Collections
1967
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
52 pages (color)
Early Portraits in Rhode Island (Exhibition catalog)
1967
Rhode Island School of Design
30 pages
American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1966
Los Angeles County Museum
143 pages (color)
Limners and Likenesses
1965
Burroughs, Alan
246 pages
American Paintings V 1, Catalog, Metropolitan Museum
1965
Gardner, Albert and S Field
284 pages
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection
1961
Art Institute of Chicago
490 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Privately Owned Selection from Collections in Washington Area (Exhibition catalog)
1952
Corcoran Gallery of Art
64 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
American Romantic Painting
1944
Richardson, Edgar P
286 pages
American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures
1941
New York Historical Society
367 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Metropolitan Museum of Art
230 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
A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1933
Harshe, Robert (Introduction)
215 pages
A Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931
Barker, Virgil
52 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz)