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Lucien Whiting Powell (1846-1930)
Lucien Whiting Powell was born on his family’s, Levinworth Manor, in Upperville, Virginia. At age 17, he enlisted in the 11th Virginia Calvary and fought at Petersburg, Richmond, and Farmville. After the war, he headed north and studied in Philadelphia with Thomas Moran. He studied the works of J.M.W. Turner at the National Gallery in London. After returning to the United States, he lived primarily in Virginia and Washington, D.C., [...] Click here to continue reading.
Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927)
Edward Henry Potthast, landscape painter and illustrator, was born 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio to a family of German immigrant artisans. At the age of thirteen he was already attending the McMicken School of Design, and at sixteen he was working for the Strobridge Lithography Company. He maintained his interest in lithography and illustration for much of his early career. In 1892 he moved to New York. Like many residents of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Benjamin Perley Poore
Benjamin Perley Poore (1820 to 1887) was a significant early collector of American antiques. A writer by trade, Poore was born near Newbury, Massachusetts to parents Benjamin and Mary Perley Poore. The family estate called Indian Hill became the showcase for his eclectic assemblage of antiques.
As a youth Poore was influenced by trips to Europe and was especially fascinated by the old Scottish castles and manor houses. He later sought [...] Click here to continue reading.
James Pollard (British, 1792-1867)
James Pollard was the foremost of all coaching painters. He is noted for his renderings of the British mail coaches, and occasionally did paintings of racing, fishing and hunting scenes. He was a popular artist and according to N.C. Selway, author of The Golden Age of Coaching and Sport, about 343 of Pollard’s works were engraved and of these Pollard himself engraved 146.
Ogden Minton Pleissner (1905 to 1983)
Ogden Minton Pleissner was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father was very interested in the arts, especially music and his mother was an accomplished violinist who had studied in Germany. At age 16, Pleissner was sent to a summer camp in Dubois, Wyoming. He spent two summers at with camp with a group of 15 or 20 other boys. A third summer was spent on a dude [...] Click here to continue reading.
Edouard Henri Theophile Pingret (French 1788-1875)
The genre and portrait painter Edouard Pingret was a student of both David and Regnault. He exhibited at the Paris Salons between 1810 and 1867, and was awarded second class medals in 1824 and in 1831. Pingret was honored as a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1839.
Joseph Pickering (English 1865-1912)
Pickering gave up a career as a civil engineer to pursue painting and became a celebrated painter of grand and romantic landscapes. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, and was a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Society of British Artists.
Ammi Phillips (1788-1865)
Ammi Phillips was born in Colebrook, Connecticut on 24 April 1788 and by 1811 was known to be working as an itinerant professional artist. Phillips married twice before his death in 1865 and it was his practice to move his family to a rural community to paint commissions in that region and then moving on when he had exhausted the demand in that area. In this manner he moved throughout western [...] Click here to continue reading.
William Preston Phelps (1848-1923)
William Preston Phelps is one of a number of American painters who, despite their talents, but because of personal circumstances, have tended to disappear in the canonical account of American art. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1848, Phelps began his career as a self-taught sign painter . His obvious abilities, however, soon encouraged a group of local businessmen to sponsor his further training at the Royal Academy in Munich, where [...] Click here to continue reading.
Nan Dee Phelps (1904-1990)
Nan Phelps was born in London, Kentucky. She moved to Hamilton, Ohio in 1922. A self-taught artist, Phelps was prolific, producing hundreds of paintings while working into her eighties. Often drawing on childhood memory, she painted portraits, still lifes, birds, animals, buildings, landscapes, and religious scenes. She exhibited three times in New York, once in Boston, at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and in numerous small art shows throughout Ohio. She [...] Click here to continue reading.
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