Internet Antique Gazette

Tompkins Harrison Matteson(1813-1884)

A follower of William Sydney Mount, Tompkins Harrison Matteson was one of America’s most famous genre and historical painters.

Matteson was born in Peterborough, New York, and while trying to make his way as an artist, he worked as actor in a troupe of strolling Shakespearean players, as well as in other professions. Primarily self-taught, he studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and opened a studio there [...] Click here to continue reading.

Antonio Pietro Martino (1902-1989)

Born April 13, 1902 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Antonio Martino was the son of an Italian immigrant stonecutter and mason. He exhibited an interest in art and drawing early in his life, and soon was attending art classes at the Graphic Sketch Club in South Philadelphia. It was at this Club that he found encouragement for his interest in drawing. Within two years Martino was taking evening classes at the Pennsylvania [...] Click here to continue reading.

Reginald Marsh (1898 to 1954)

Marsh was born in Paris to artist parents, both of whom were academically trained. His family retuned to the States when Marsh was two years old. He studied first at Yale University and then at New York’s Art Students League, where he became familiar with the work of John Sloan, George Luks, and the other members of The Eight, later known as the Ashcan School. In the early 1920s, [...] Click here to continue reading.

Edward Middleton Manigault (1887-1922)

Painter E. Middleton Manigault was born in Canada in 1887, and raised there, but was also associated with Charleston, South Carolina where his great-grandfather Joseph Manigault lived, building the Joseph Manigault House, which is still used by the Charleston Museum. Middleton Manigault moved to New York as an eighteen-year-old. Encouraged by his parents in his art pursuits, he studied with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, who became his friend, [...] Click here to continue reading.