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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. 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. 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. Jack Keijo Steele (born 1919) Steele is one of Michigan’s most important Regionalist painters who trained at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the 1930s and 40s along with fellow artists David Fredenthal and Harry Bertoia. Steele has been the subject of a major retrospective at the Cranbrook Art Museum and his work has recently been included in several traveling exhibitions of American Scene painting. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. February 2002 Everett Franklin Spruce (American, 1908 to 2002) From his earliest days in Conway, Arkansas, Everett Spruce was fascinated with the rural landscape and the creatures which inhabited the hills and hollows during the day, and especially at night when nature’s mystery comes alive. His love of the land and the animals that dwell in it became fully embodied with his discovery of the Big Bend region of Texas. Spruce is Texas’ greatest chronicler [...] Click here to continue reading. John Adams Spelman (American, 1880 to 1940) A Chicago landscape painter, Spelman was a member of the Oak Park and River Forest Art League, Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors, and the Chicago Gallery Association. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Oak Park Art League, and the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art. His work is in the collections of the Chicago Athletic Club, University of Nebraska, Illinois State Museum (Springfield), [...] Click here to continue reading. Raphael Soyer (1899-1987) Born in Borisoglebsk, Russia in 1899, Raphael Soyer is identified as a Social Realist painter because of his interest in the common man, although he avoided subjects that were particularly critical of society. Soyer moved with his family to the Lower East Side of New York City in 1913, after they were deported from Russia by the Tsarist regime. His father, a Hebrew teacher and writer, encouraged artistic and intellectual [...] Click here to continue reading. George William Sotter (1879 to 1953) As a young man, George William Sotter focused on painting the landscape surrounding the Pittsburgh countryside where he was born. Early in his career he and Horace Rudy were partners in a stained glass studio, producing masterful works for cathedrals, monasteries and churches. In 1902 he began his formal art training under Edward W. Redfield at the New Hope School in Bucks County. His studies continued under the [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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