List of American artists before 1900
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This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking.
Born before 1800
John White (c. 1540 – c. 1606), artist-illustrator, surveyor
Thomas Smith (c. 1650 – c. 1691), painter
John Smybert (1688–1751), painter
Robert Feke (c. 1705/1707–1750), painter
Joseph Badger (c. 1707/1708–1765), painter
Jeremiah Theus (1716–1774), painter
Patience Wright (1725–1786), sculptor
John Hesselius (1728–1778), painter
John Singleton Copley (c. 1738–1815), painter
Benjamin West (1738–1820), painter
Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827), painter
Henry Benbridge (1743–1812), painter
James Peale (1749–1831), painter
Ralph Earl (1751–1801), painter
Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828), painter
John Trumbull (1756–1843), painter
William Rush (1756–1833), sculptor
Christian Gullager (1759-1826), painter
James Earl (1761–1796), painter
Mather Brown (1761–1831), painter
Edward Savage (1761–1817), painter
John Brewster Jr. (1766–1854), painter
Ruth Henshaw Bascom (1772–1848), folk art portraitist
William Jennys (1774–1859), primitive portrait painter
Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825), painter
Cephas Thompson (1775–1856), portrait painter
John Vanderlyn (1775–1852), painter
Jacob Eichholtz (1776–1842), portrait painter
Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860), painter
Washington Allston (1779–1843), painter
Edward Hicks (1780–1849), painter
John Wesley Jarvis (c. 1781–1839), painter
Thomas Sully (1783–1872), painter
Solomon Willard (1783–1861), stone carver
Rubens Peale (1784–1865), painter
Bass Otis (1784–1861), painter
John James Audubon (1785–1851), painter of birds and nature
Charles Bird King (1785–1862), portrait painter
James Frothingham (1786–1864), painter
John Lewis Krimmel (1786–1821), America's first genre painter
William Edward West (1788–1859), portrait painter
Hannah Cohoon (1788–1864), painter
Sarah Goodridge (1788–1853), painter of miniatures
Matthew Harris Jouett (1788–1827), portrait artist
Hezekiah Augur (1791–1858), sculptor, inventor
Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872), painter, inventor
Susanna Paine (1792–1862), portrait artist
Alvan Fisher (1792–1863), painter
James Bowman (c. 1793–1842), painter
Thomas Doughty (1793–1856), painter
Amasa Hewins (1795–1855), painter
George Catlin (1796–1872), painter
Asher Durand (1796–1886), painter
John Neagle (1796–1865), painter
Elizabeth Goodridge (1798–1882), miniaturist painter
Titian Peale (1799–1885), painter
Born 1800–1809
1800
Francis Alexander (d. 1881), painter
Sarah Miriam Peale (d. 1885), portrait painter
1801
John Quidor (d. 1881), painter
Thomas Cole (d. 1848), painter
Henry Inman (d. 1846), painter
1803
Robert Walter Weir (d. 1889), painter
1804
Fitz Henry Lane (d. 1865), painter
1805
Hiram Powers (d.
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