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Winter in 19C America - 1879 Riding horse home in snow
A Pleasant Ride Home. June 7 1879
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Winter in 19C America - 1862 Snowy Morning
Fanny Palmer (American artist, 1812-1876) Published by N Currier A Snowy Morning 1862
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Women following their husbands in the Civil War
From 1861, Northern infantry campers with their puppy. "District of Columbia. Tent life of the 31st (later, 82nd) Pennsylvania Infantry at Queen's Farm, vicinity of Fort Slocum." Unknown...
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Winter in 19C America - 1854 Snow in the Evening
Fanny Palmer (American artist, 1812-1876) Published by N Currier American Winter Scenes Evening 1854
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Fashion! - The Turquerie turbans of First Lady Dolley Madison 1768-1849
Bass Otis (American artist, 1784-1861) Dolley Madsion 1768-1849Dolley Madison always called herself Dolley, & by that name her birth was recorded on May 20, 1768 by the Society of Friends, in...
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Colorized photo of Annie Oakley
American sharpshooter, Annie Oakley, ca. 1900 - reddit.com colorized history
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19C American Folk Art - Attributed to Sturtevant J Hamblin 1817-1884...
Attributed to Sturtevant J Hamblin (American artist 1817-1884), but probably by "Blake not Hamblin" Boy in Blue c 1840 (Prior-Hamblin School)Sturtevant J. Hamblin worked as a portrait painter in...
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19C American Folk Art - Prior-Hamblen School
Prior-Hamblen School Portrait of woman attributed to EW Blake c 1845Here are more paintings attributed by curators or sellers of folk art to the Prior-Hamblen or Hamblin School. Five artists are...
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19C American Folk Art - Attributed to William Matthew Prior 1806-1873...
In the first half of the 19th century, before photography made it possible to have inexpensive true likenesses, portrait painters worked in most urban cities & often traveled from small town to...
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Turbans, Voodoo, & Tignon Laws in Louisiana
During the 19th century, Marie Leveau (d. 1881), a devoted Catholic known as the Voodoo Queen, was generally a feared figure in New Orleans. Though apparently adept with Voodoo charms & potions of...
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attributed to Emily Eastman (Loudon, New Hampshire, 1804-? ) Woman in Veil c 1825Several New England artists shared a unique painting style during the 1820s-30s. Women depicted by these artists exhibit...
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Louisiana paintings by German-born Franz “François” Fleischbein (1801-1868)
Franz “François” Fleischbein (German-born, American pairnter 1801-1868) Betsy 1837 New OrleansFrançois Fleischbein (1804–1868) was a German painter who lived and worked in New Orleans. Better known as...
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Quirky, Folky Portraits of Early 19C American Women
Maine Artist A. Ellis, Lady with a Nosegay 1830Several New England artists shared a unique painting style during the 1820s-30s. Women depicted by these artists exhibit several similar characteristics -...
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Louisiana paintings by Italian-born Anthony Meucci (flourished in America,...
Anthony Meucci (fl in America, 1818-1827) Juliet Noel (Mrs Pierre Toussaint)A painter known for portrait miniatures, teaching drawing, painting opera scenery, & restoring art, Anthony Meucci was...
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Quirky, Folky Portraits of Early 19C American Women
Almira Wheaton (American, 1804-1881) Lady in a Straw Hat 1824-1825Several New England artists shared a unique painting style during the 1820s-30s. Women depicted by these artists exhibit several...
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Louisiana paintings by French-born artist Alfred Boisseau 1823–1901
Alfred Boisseau (Paris-born American painter, 1823–1901) Miss Denegre or Miss MachecaAlfred Boisseau (Paris-born American painter, 1823–1901) A Choctaw Woman in LouisianaAlfred Boisseau (Paris-born...
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Quirky, Folky Portraits of Early 19C American Women
attributed to John Usher Parsons (American artist, 1806-1874) Woman in Pink c 1835-38 Several New England artists shared a unique painting style during the 1820s-30s. Women depicted by these artists...
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