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Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819-1905) Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait was one of the foremost animal and sporting scene painters of 19th century America. Born August 5, 1819 near Liverpool, England, Tait moved to Manchester as a youth and learned the techniques of lithography while working for an art dealer in that city. By 1838 he identified himself as an artist and had a rising reputation as a lithographer and illustrator of popular magazines. According to one [...] Click here to continue reading. Quincy Tahoma (Navajo, 1921-1956) Quincy Tahoma had a short career, and, after his tragic accidental death at the age of 35, became highly published. Tahoma attended the Albuquerque Indian School from 1936 to 1940 and the Santa Fe Indian School for post-graduate studies. His early work mostly consisted of tranquil scenes of Navajo life, but he eventually changed, and began illustrating gruesome depictions of war and hunts. Today his work is found in the [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas Sully A teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Thomas Sully became one of the foremost early 19th-century portrait painters, known for painting pretty faces on his subjects, often disregarding reality. He was the son of English actors and was born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire. He came to Philadelphia in 1792 when he was nine years old. Sully showed early drawing talent and first studied with his older brother, Lawrence, a miniaturist, [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas Wilcocks Sully (Jr) (1811-1847 Thomas Sully, Jr., was a son of American portrait painter Thomas Sully. He was a portrait and miniature painter active in Philadelphia during the 1830s and 1840s. He exhibited at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and The Artists’ Fund Society. Information courtesy of Skinner Inc. Henry Stull (1851 to 1913) While Henry Stull initially wanted to be an actor, his life and art ultimately revolved around racehorses, especially at Coney Island, New York. To make this point, it has been said he was born above a stable in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1851, but this may be an item helpful to making his life story seem even more predestined. However, he did have close exposure as a child to [...] Click here to continue reading. William Strickland (American, 1788 to 1854) William Strickland’s career as an architect, engineer and artist spanned 45 years. The son of a master carpenter, Strickland was apprenticed at the age of 15 to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, America’s first professionally trained architect. In 1818, Strickland won the competition for the Second Bank Building with a design based on the Pantheon. The bank is considered a seminal work in Neoclassicism and Greek Revival in the United [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Street (American 1796 to 1865) Robert Street was a Pennsylvania artist about whose early life and career little is known. In 1815, he exhibited at the PAFA. Within 10 years, he had become a well-known portraitist, and had traveled to Washington, DC and painted Andrew Jackson (a portrait that hung in the White House). In 1840, he mounted a large exhibit at the Arist’s Fund Hall in Philadelphia. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions November 2004 Raphael Strauss (1830-1901) Raphael Strauss was born in Bavaria and purportedly began his career painting steamboats in the East. He was painting portraits and miniatures by 1858. City directories list him for better than 20 years maintaining a studio with fellow artist John Aubery. He was vice-president of the Cincinnati Art Club. See The Golden Age: Cincinnati Painters of the Nineteenth Century Represented in the Cincinnati Art Museum and Haverstock et al, Artists in [...] Click here to continue reading. John Stobart (b. 1929) The second son of a pharmacist and a mother who died giving birth to him, John Stobart was born in Leicester, England on December 29, 1929. Raised by his maternal grandmother and various housekeepers, he showed an early aptitude for creativity but a lack of interest in academic learning. His low grades but apparent flair for drawing persuaded his father to enroll him in Derby College of Art in [...] Click here to continue reading. Julius LeBlanc Stewart (American, French, 1855 to 1919) Julius LeBlanc Stewart was born in Philadelphia in 1855 but moved to Paris at the age of ten and remained there for the majority of his life. His father, William Hood Stewart, had inherited a profitable Cuban sugar plantation and invested his money in fashionable nineteenth century academic art, including works by Spanish school artists like Mario Fortuny, Eduardo Zamacois and Raimundo de Madrazo. Stewart likely [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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