Massachusetts / United Kingdom. 1738 - 1815
Portrait, historical, genre and religious painting
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1738 Springfield, Pennsylvania - 1820 London, England. Known for: History, allegorical, religious and portrait paintings.
America's most famous successful expatriate painter and described as the "father of American painting" (Zellman, 55) Benjamin West became the first American artist to gain international fame. He was... Read full biography
America's most famous successful expatriate painter and described as the "father of American painting" (Zellman, 55) Benjamin West became the first American artist to gain international fame. He was known for his large-scale and realistic historical genre paintings. West was born near Springfield,... Read full biography
America's most famous successful expatriate painter and described as the "father of American painting" (Zellman, 55) Benjamin West became the first American artist to gain international fame. He was known for his large-scale and realistic historical genre paintings. West was born near Springfield, Pennsylvania, near the future location of Swathmore College. Supposedly, he first learned pigment making from local Indians. William Williams, an English portrait painter living in Philadelphia, was... Read full biography
America's most famous successful expatriate painter and described as the "father of American painting" (Zellman, 55) Benjamin West became the first American artist to gain international fame. He was known for his large-scale and realistic historical genre paintings. West was born near Springfield, Pennsylvania, near the future location of Swathmore College. Supposedly, he first learned pigment making from local Indians. William Williams, an English portrait painter living in Philadelphia, was probably his first teacher. West's father was an innkeeper, and as a youngster, West began sketching many of the people who passed through his home. As a teenager, he was painting portraits in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and by age 20, had finished his... Read full biography
America's most famous successful expatriate painter and described as the "father of American painting" (Zellman, 55) Benjamin West became the first American artist to gain international fame. He was known for his large-scale and realistic historical genre paintings. West was born near Springfield, Pennsylvania, near the future location of Swathmore College. Supposedly, he first learned pigment making from local Indians. William Williams, an English portrait painter living in Philadelphia, was probably his first teacher. West's father was an innkeeper, and as a youngster, West began sketching many of the people who passed through his home. As a teenager, he was painting portraits in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and by age 20, had finished his first history painting, The Death of Socrates. Sensing his exceptional talent, a group of local per... Read full biography
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The Death of General Wolfe
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PORTRAIT OF PRINCE WILLIAM (1776-1834), LATER 2ND DUKE OF GLOUCESTER AND EDINBURGH, AND HIS ELDER SISTER, PRINCESS SOPHIA (1773-1844) OF GLOUCESTER
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THE BATTLE OF LA HOGUE
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Pennsylvania. 1778 - 1860
Portrait, historical genre, and animal painting, lithography
Pennsylvania / France. 1844 - 1916
Figure, genre, portrait and marine painting, teaching
Massachusetts, Maine / Europe. 1824 - 1906
Portrait, genre-figure, and landscape painting
Pennsylvania / England. 1783 - 1872
Portrait, historical, and landscape painting
Connecticut, Massachusetts. 1751 - 1801
Portrait, narrative, landscape, history
New York, Connecticut. 1816 - 1872
Landscape and coastal scene painting, engravings
Pennsylvania / Germany. 1815 - 1872
Sumptuous still life
New York / Italy. 1836 - 1923
Allegory, landscape, figure and fantasy painting
Pennsylvania, New York. 1848 - 1892
Trompe l'oeil still life painting, hanging game
New York / England. 1801 - 1848
Landscape, history and allegory painting
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont. 1824 - 1879
Portrait, landscape, genre and figure painting
New Jersey, Pennsylvania. 1854 - 1907
Trompe still life, marine and portrait painting
Massachusetts / United Kingdom, Italy. 1856 - 1925
Portrait, figure, landscape and mural painting
New Jersey, New York, Ohio. 1820 - 1910
Landscape, portrait, marine, and genre painting
New York, California, Indiana. 1849 - 1916
Plein-air landscape, interior scenes and genre painting, teaching
New York, Vermont / France. 1852 - 1896
Landscape, genre, portrait painting
New York. 1823 - 1900
Autumnal landscape and allegorical painting, botanics
New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts / France. 1848 - 1907
Portrait and figure sculpture, monuments
Massachusetts, New York. 1823 - 1880
Landscape, marine, and portrait painting-luminism
New York, Rhode Island. 1835 - 1910
Stained glass design, mural and floral still life painting
Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut / France. 1870 - 1938
Genre, figure, landscape and still-life painting
New York, Connecticut. 1852 - 1919
Impressionist landscape, portrait, and still life painting
Pennsylvania, New York / Europe. 1883 - 1935
Precisionist painting, landscape, still life, figure, portrait, industrial scene
New York, Ohio. 1882 - 1925
Genre, portrait, and street-landscape painting
Massachusetts, Maine / England. 1836 - 1910
Genre, marine, and figure painting, illustration
New York, Massachusetts. 1859 - 1935
Flag parades, figure and interior scene painting, etchings
New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio. 1853 - 1902
Landscape and portrait painting, illustrator
New York. 1866 - 1933
Urban genre and portrait painting, illustration
New York. 1827 - 1908
Hudson River landscape, some portrait, and still-life painting
New York, California / Italy. 1862 - 1928
Painting-landscape-ethereal female figures
Massachusetts, New York / France. 1858 - 1924
Modernist genre-crowds, landscape and still life painting