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Steffen Wolfgang George Thomas (January 7, 1906 – January 27, 1990) was an artist and poet. He was born in Fürth , Germany , but lived most of his adult life in Atlanta , Georgia . His most notable pieces are public monuments; however, he also worked in other media (including, but not limited to painting , sculpture , mosaic , printmaking ...
Billings was born November 20, 1824, to wheelwright Ira Billings and Eunice Tryon of Massachusetts. [1] He lived in Montgomery, Alabama, intermittently c. 1850-1859; [2] and in Worcester, Massachusetts, c. 1854-1856. [3] He "first visited Worcester in 1854. Billings painted several important Worcester residents, including John Davis and Stephen ...
Stephen Born (né Simon Buttermilch; 28 December 1824 – 4 May 1898) was a German typesetter [1] and revolutionary. As a founder of the General German Workers' Brotherhood, he created the first national trade union organization in the German workers' movement. He was born in Lissa, Prussian Province of Posen (Leszno, Poland) in 1824 and moved ...
Family of the artist My First Born: Oil on canvas ca.1890 Kenyon Cox * Medal (oils) Portrait of Louise H. King - the Artist's Wife: Oil on canvas 1891 38.625 x 17.875 in 98.11 x 45.4 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum An Eclogue: Oil on canvas 1890 48 x 60.5 in 121.9 x 153.7 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum May: Oil on canvas 1890 15.5 x 30 in
George W. Thomas Jr. was the second of thirteen children born to Fanny (née Bradley) and George W. Thomas. He was born in Plum Bayou Township, just outside the Delta town of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. [2] [4] In the late 1890s the family moved to Houston, Texas, where George W. Thomas Sr. became a deacon at the Shiloh Baptist Church. [2]
Born at Horsham, Sussex, he was one of the 12 children of the surgeon William Thomas Coleman and his wife Henrietta Dendy; the artist Helen Cordelia Coleman (1847–1884) was the fifth daughter of the family. [1] [2] Coleman was unsuccessful in a career as surgeon, and turned to natural history illustration.
For many years William Thomas Roden painted nearly all the presentation portraits that were wanted in the town. [5] As well as private commissions, Roden painted a number of portraits by subscription for presentation to Birmingham Council House, Aston Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the General Hospital and Saltley College. Samuel ...
At about age 50, Thompson retired from itinerant painting to reside year-round on his Middleborough farm. [ 4 ] Among Cephas Thompson's portrait subjects are John Marshall , Stephen Decatur , David Ramsay of South Carolina, John Howard Payne , Elizabeth Wirt , James DeWolf , and George Washington Parke Custis , who was his pupil.