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Kentucky Artists

The artists included in the Kentucky Online Arts Resource include Kentucky artists (both those active in the state and those strongly associated with the state) such as Kentucky painters, Kentucky sculptors, Kentucky silversmiths, Kentucky cabinetmakers, Kentucky chairmakers, Kentucky quilters, Kentucky weavers, Kentucky potters, Kentucky glassmakers, and others. The site also includes significant depictions of the state's cities, towns, landscapes, and citizens executed by artists from other states and countries. The listing below includes all of the artists presently represented in the site.

Kentucky artists A - C
Kentucky artists D - J
Kentucky artists K - O
Kentucky artists P - T
Kentucky artists U - Z

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Kentucky artists A-C

Maud Ainslie (b.1870, d.1960)
John B. Akin (b.Circa 1825)
John Bernard Alberts, Jr. (b.1886, d.1931)
Jane Mengel Allen (b.1888, d.1952)
Joseph B. Allison (b.Circa 1837)
American Turf Register (estab.1829, closed 1844)
Alexander Anderson (b.Circa 1842, d.1893)
Virginia Frances Anderson (b.1893, d.1990)
John Andrew (b.1815, d.1870)
James Archer (active Circa 1835-1857)
William S. Arrasmith (b.1898, d.1965)
L.E. Ashbrook (b.1890)
Charles Asmann (b.1831)
John James Audubon (b.1785, d.1851)
John Woodhouse Audubon (b.1812, d.1862)
Jules Charles Aviat (French, b.1844, d.1931)
Pleasant Baird (active Circa 1802-Post 1830)
Baker and Brother
John Baker
Thomas Ball (b.1819, d.1911)
Mary Louise "Terry" Baringer (b.1900, d.1988)
A. S. Barnes & Co.
Chauncey P. Barnes (b.1828)
James P. Barnes (active 1848-Circa 1880)
Nina Gordon Batchelor, Comtesse de Foiard (d.1912)
J. A. Bauer Pottery (estab. 1885, closed 1962)
John Bauer Pottery (estab. Circa 1878, closed 1902)
Valentine Baumstark (b.1825, d.1885)
James Carter Beard (b.1837, d.1913)
Eleanor Beckham (b.1901)
Morris B. Belknap, Jr. (b.1893, d.1952)
Frank H. Bellew (b.1828, d.1888)
J. W. Berry
Hammatt Billings (b.1816, d.1874)
George Caleb Bingham (b.1811, d.1879)
Joseph Bingley (b.Circa 1805)
Robert M. Bird (b.1805-1806, d.1854)
Asa Blanchard (d.1838)
Washington Blanchard (b.1808)
Bollman and Schatzman
Charles Bond (b.1825, d.1865)
Emil Bott (b.1827, d.1908)
John Bartholomew Botto (b.1835, d.1910)
Clarence Boyd (b.1855, d.1883)
Ferdinand Thomas Lee Boyle (b.1820, d.1906)
Matthew Brady (b.1823, d.1896)
Robert Brammer (b.Circa 1811, d.1853)
Edward Paxman Brandard (English, b.1819, d.1898)
Lucy Breckinridge (b.Circa 1813)
Carl Christian Brenner (b.1838, d.1888)
Carolus Brenner (b.1865, d.1924)
Victor David Brenner (b.1871, d.1924)
Emma Bridges (b.1842, d.1888)
Henry Kirke Brown (b.1814, d.1886)
William Henry Brown (b.1808, d.1883)
George W. Browning, Jr. (b.1858, d.1910)
George W. Browning, Sr. (b.1814, d.1871)
John H. Bufford (d.1871)
Charles Ferréal Auguste Bullett (b.1820, d.Circa 1872)
Joseph H. Bush (b.1794, d.1865)
John Chester Buttre (b.1821, d.1893)
Bybee Pottery-Cornelison Pottery (estab. Circa 1840)
Bybee Pottery Company (estab. 1922, closed 1929)
Bybee Pottery Company - Genuine Bybee pottery line
Bybee Pottery Company - Selden-Bybee pottery line
Neville Cain (b.1855, d.1935)
Thomas G. Calvert (b.1832)
John Cameron (b.1828)
Andrew C. Cammack (active Circa 1860)
Thomas Campbell (b.1790, d.1858)
William Campbell (active Circa 1795-Circa 1820)
Molly B. Cave (active Circa 1860)
Alonzo Chappel (b.1828, d.1887)
Charles Chardon (French, active Circa 1866)
Childs and Inman (estab. 1831, closed 1834)
Cephas G. Childs (b.1793, d.1871)
Porter Clay (b.1779, d.1849)
Charles Colin (French, active Circa 1866)
R. Compou
Bascom Cooper
Susan Frances Poindexter Cooper (b.Circa 1827)
William and Archibald Cooper (estab. 1836, closed 1846)
William Brown Cooper (b.1811, d.1890)
Charles Ernest Cornelison (b.1911, d.1969)
Aaron Houghton Corwine (b.1802, d.1830)
Courtois of Malines (Belgian)
Samuel Cousins (English, b.1801, d.1887)
Reson B. Crafft (b.1809, d.1866)
Frederick Cruickshank (Scottish, b.1800, d.1868)
Richard Crump (b.1805)
Currier and Ives (estab. 1834, closed 1907)
Nathaniel Currier (b.1813, d.1888)
John Cusick (b.1896, d.1955)

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Kentucky artists D-J

Patrick Henry Davenport (b.1803, d.1890)
Francis D'Avignon (b.Circa 1814)
Samuel Dearborn (active 1804-1823)
Archibald L. Dick
Fannie Porter Dickey (b.1858, d.1906)
Oliver Ditson (b.1811)
George E. Diuguid (b.1782, d.1861)
George W. Doane (d.1870)
John W. Dodge (b.1807, d.1893)
Doolittle and Munson (active 1831-1849)
W. H. Dougal (b.1822, d.1895)
Thomas Doughty (b.1793, d.1856)
Drake & Haskell (active Circa 1840s)
Elbridge G. Dunnell (active Circa 1842-1854)
Asher Brown Durand (b.1796, d.1886)
Eastman (active Circa 1847)
Auguste Edouart (French, b.1788, d.1861)
Charles Loring Elliott (b.1812, d.1868)
Endicott (active Circa 1841-Circa 1851)
Aaron Eshleman (b.1826, d.Circa 1880)
Jacob R. Esterle (b.1814, d.1868)
Pasquale Farina (b.1864, d.Circa 1934)
Ivan P. Federov (Russian, b.1859, d.1912)
Samuel Feemster (b.Circa 1776)
John Filson (b.1753, d.1788)
Edward Fisk (b.1886, d.1944)
Fletcher & Bennett (estab. 1854, closed 1893)
Henry Fletcher (d.1866)
Thomas Fletcher (b.1787, d.1866)
John B. Forrest (b.Circa 1814, d.1870)
Charles Foster (active 1842-1850)
Trevor Thomas Fowler (Irish, b.1800, d.1871)
Charles Joseph Fox (b.1908)
Godfrey N. Frankenstein (b.1820, d.1873)
Oliver Frazer (b.1808, d.1864)
Robert Frazer, Jr. (active Circa 1830-Post 1860)
William Frye (b.1819, d.1872)
George F. Fuller (b.1822, d.1884)
David C. Fulton (active Circa 1838-1865)
John Gaither (b.1786, d.1819)
Garner and Winchester (estab. Circa 1842, closed 1862)
Eli C. Garner (b.1817-1818, d.1878)
Philip Garrett (b.1780, d.1851)
Gast, Moeller & Company
German and Bro. Printers
George Gibson (active Circa 1815-Circa 1825)
Joseph Napoleon Gimbrede (b.1820)
Gorham Manufacturing Co. (estab. 1831)
Goupil & Co.
Henry Peters Gray (b.1819, d.1877)
Sophie DeButts Gray (b.1854, d.1942)
Hewett Green (b.1865, d.1901)
Griggs and Grinstead (estab. 1857)
John Grimes (b.1799, d.1837)
G.W. Grinstead & Bro. (active Circa 1880-Circa 1910)
John P. Grinstead (b.1811)
Thomas E. Grove
The "Guilford Limner" (French, active Circa 1820-Circa 1827)
Paul Gunter (b.1857, d.1936)
A. Halbert
Basil Hall (English, b.1788, d.1844)
James Hamilton (b.1819, d.1878)
James Hamilton & Company (estab. 1851, closed 1880)
Chester Harding (b.1792, d.1866)
William Hardman (active Circa 1840)
R. L. Harley
Harris and Lemon (estab. 1830, closed 1831)
Hart and Mapother (active Circa 1860s)
Joel Tanner Hart (b.1810, d.1877)
George Peter Alexander Healy (b.1813, d.1894)
Henrietta Hunt Henning (b.1898, d.1964)
Albert P. Henry (b.1836, d.1872)
William Hentschel (b.1892, d.1962)
John M. Hewitt (b.Circa 1814, d.Circa 1856)
Hildeburn & Watson (estab. 1829, closed 1833)
George Harrison Hite (d.Circa 1880)
Silas Hoadley (b.1786, d.1870)
William James Hubard (b.1807, d.1862)
Harlan Hubbard (b.1900, d.1988)
Henry Hudson (b.Circa 1818, d.1888)
Hudson and Dolfinger (active 1855-1858)
M. Huet (French, active Circa 1894)
Phillip Huffman (b.1821, d.1898)
David Humphreys (active Circa 1788-Circa 1815)
F. Humphreys
Bert Hurley (b.1898, d.1955)
Elizabeth Huston (b.1795, d.1828)
Henry Hyman (b.1808, d.1866)
Illman & Sons (active 1845-1859)
Henry Inman (b.1801, d.1846)
Benoni Irwin (b.1840, d.1896)
Virginia Mason Ivey (b.1828, d.1904)
William G. Jackman (active 1841-Post 1860)
John Wesley Jarvis (b.1781, d.1840)
P. O. Jenkins (b.Circa 1818)
Johnson, Fry and Company (active 1850s-1870s)
Mary G. Johnston (b.1872, d.1966)
Harvey Joiner (b.1852, d.1932)
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Jones (b.1857, d.1907)
Matthew Harris Jouett (b.1788, d.1827)

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Kentucky artists K-O

Carl L. Kean (active Circa 1840-Circa 1850)
Frederick A. Kean (b.Circa 1811, d.1893)
William Kendrick (b.1810, d.1880)
Kenton Hill Porcelains, Inc. (estab. 1940, closed 1944)
Kentucky Glassworks (estab. 1850, closed Circa 1855)
Samuel S. Kilburn (b.1836, d.1881)
Samuel S. Kilburn, Jr. (active 1830s-1865)
David King (b.1818, d.1896)
J.W. King (active Circa 1830-1840)
Robert King (b.Circa 1825)
David Kinsey (b.1819, d.1874)
Edward and David Kinsey (estab. 1844, closed 1861)
Edward Kinsey (b.1810, d.1865)
Nathaniel Kinsey, Jr. (b.1828-1829)
Kitts and Stoy (estab. 1852, closed 1855)
Kitts and Werne (estab. 1864, closed 1878)
John Kitts (active 1836-Circa 1878)
John Kitts and Company (estab. Circa 1859, closed Circa 1864)
M. Knoedler
Dorothy Kohlhepp (b.1907, d.1964)
Norman Kohlhepp (b.1892, d.1986)
Sergei Timofeevich Konenkov (Russian, b.1874, d.1971)
Romuald Kraus (b.1891, d.1954)
Peter L. Krider (b.1821, d.1895)
Krider and Biddle (estab. 1860, closed Circa 1870)
Kuhn and Ridgaway (estab. 1860, closed 1880)
Louis Kurz (b.1833, d.1921)
James R. Lambdin (b.1807, d.1889)
R. R. Landon
Thomas Lawrence (English, b.1769, d.1830)
Thomas LeClear (b.1818, d.1882)
Samuel M. Lee (b.Circa 1809, d.1841)
Doris Leist (b.1911, d.2004)
Lemon and Kendrick (estab. 1831, closed 1841)
James I. Lemon & Co. (estab. Circa 1859, closed Circa 1877)
James Innes Lemon (b.Circa 1804, d.Circa 1869)
Thomas Lincoln (b.Circa 1776, d.1851)
George Linen (b.1802, d.1888)
William Home Lizars (Scottish, b.1788, d.1859)
James Barton Longacre (b.1794, d.1869)
Warham P. Loomis (b.1794, d.1870)
Louisville Glassworks (estab. Circa 1855, closed 1873)
Louisville Lithographic Company
Louisville Pottery Company (estab. 1906, closed 1971)
Louisville Pottery Company - Cherokee Pottery line
Henri Lovie (b.Circa 1829)
Leroy L. Loving (b.1890, d.1951)
William Lowry (active Circa 1804-Circa 1810)
Charles Magnus (b.1826, d.1900)
Edward Dalton Marchant (b.1806, d.1887)
Nicola Marschall (b.1829, d.1917)
Flossie Sheriff McClure (b.1892)
William McComas (b.1840, d.1909)
William R. McComas
Thomas McCowat (b.Circa 1783, d.1853-1860)
George W. McDannold (b.Circa 1801)
Magdalen Harvie McDowell (b.1829, d.1918)
Wilson McGrew (b.1800)
Thomas McMurray (active Circa 1810-Circa 1820)
Benjamin Mead (active Circa 1817-Circa 1820)
Sarah Jane Henderson Means (b.1826, d.1924)
Anton Melcher and Company (estab. Circa 1849, closed Circa 1875)
Edward Melcher Pottery (estab. Circa 1845, closed Circa 1876)
Henry Melcher Pottery (estab. Circa 1851, closed Circa 1867)
Herrmann J. Meyer (German, active Circa 1850s)
James H. Miller (b.Circa 1814)
Jean-François Millet (French, b.1814, d.1875)
Mary Mize (b.Circa 1834)
Theodore Sydney Moise (b.1806, d.1883)
Louis Morgan (b.1814, d.1852)
George W. Morrison (b.1820, d.1893)
Kate E. Perry Mosher (b.1836, d.1926)
Henry Mosler (b.1841, d.1920)
Edna Munz
Mary Spencer Nay (b.1913, d.1993)
John Neagle (b.1796, d.1865)
Ann Nelson
Albert Newsam (b.1809, d.1864)
Thomas Satterwhite Noble (b.1835, d.1907)
Beverly Noel (active Circa 1826-Circa 1838)
Jules Noël (French, b.Circa 1815, d.1881)
Nordheim

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Kentucky artists P-T

Asa Park (d.1827)
C.R. Parker (active Circa 1826-Circa 1850)
Charles S. Parker (b.1860, d.1930)
George Edward Perine (b.1837, d.1885)
Ledyard Phelps (active Circa 1835-1845)
Paul Albert Plaschke (b.1880, d.1954)
Charles Plimpton (active Circa 1814-Circa 1820)
John Plumbe, Jr. (b.1809, d.1857)
James Thomas Poindexter (b.1832, d.1891)
William A. Poindexter (b.1818, d.1884)
William P. Poindexter (b.1792, d.1869)
Edward Potthast (b.1857, d.1927)
Hiram Powers (b.1805, d.1873)
Samuel Woodson Price (b.1828, d.1918)
Emile Profilet (b.1801, d.1868)
John Francis Eugene Prud'Homme (b.1800, d.1892)
Anthony Quervelle (b.1789, d.1856)
John Ramsier (b.1861, d.1936)
Ellen Emmet Rand (b.1875, d.1941)
William Tylee Ranney (b.1813, d.1857)
Robert Martin Rasmussen (d.1967)
Daniel C. Redington (active Circa 1870s-1880s)
Annie M. Reed
Eleanor Reeve (b.1819, d.1903)
Claude Régnier (French, active 1852-1854)
J. C. Reiley & Co. (estab. Circa 1816)
Benjamin Franklin Reinhart (b.1829, d.1885)
Aurelius O. Revenaugh (b.1840, d.1908)
Alexander Hay Ritchie (b.1822, d.1895)
Frank G. Robbins (active Circa 1930s)
Jenny Loring Robbins (b.1866, d.1946)
Jean-Baptiste-Gaspar Roux de Rochelle (French, b.1762, d.1849)
John Jesse Rubel (active Circa 1866-Circa 1876)
Alexis Rudier Foundry
Henry S. Sadd (active Circa 1840s)
Gaston Casimir Saint-Pierre (French, b.1833, d.1916)
Jane Todd Samuels (active Circa 1939)
Henry Sartain (b.1833, d.1895)
John Sartain (b.1808, d.1897)
Mary Ann Xantippe Saunders (b.1838, d.1922)
William Carroll Saunders (b.1817, d.1892)
Paul Sawyier (b.1865, d.1917)
H. Schile
Gustav A. Schultz (active 1866-1893)
David Seyler (b.1917)
William Shackelford (b.1814)
George Sharp, Jr. (b.1835, d.1871)
James S. Sharrard (b.1817, d.1880)
George W. Shiebler & Company (estab. 1876, closed 1910)
Shreve, Crump & Low Co. (estab. 1796)
Gideon Shryock (b.1802, d.1880)
Franklin Simmons (b.1839, d.1913)
Simmons & Williamson (estab. 1797, closed 1798)
Thomas Sinclair (b.Circa 1805, d.1881)
Smith and Grant (estab. Circa 1827, closed 1831)
Kate Hoke Smith (active Circa 1850s-1860s)
Charles Soule, Jr. (b.1835, d.1897)
South Union Shaker community (estab. 1807, closed 1922)
Henry Spainhower (b.1809, d.1901)
John Spittall (b.Circa 1811)
Isabella Henrietta St. Leger (d.1926)
W. Staengel (active Circa 1860s)
James W. Steel (b.1799, d.1879)
George W. Stewart (b.Circa 1820, d.Circa 1875)
Joseph Whiting Stock (b.1815, d.1855)
John Stockdale (active Circa 1785-1800)
Mary Stout (active Circa 1870)
Henry Strater (b.1896, d.1987)
Gilbert Stuart (b.1755, d.1828)
Daniel Stuber (active Circa 1860s)
Henry Stull (b.1851, d.1913)
Lawrence Sully (b.1769, d.1804)
James B. Swain
Nathaniel Ellis Talcott (b.1811, d.1881)
Francis Tansel (b.Circa 1760, d.1841)
Edmund N. Tarbell (b.Circa 1831)
Lou Tate (b.1906, d.1979)
Taylor & Lawrie (estab. Circa 1837, closed 1850)
B. W. Thayer & Co.
Henry Thomas (b.Circa 1840)
Isaac Thomas (b.1789, d.Circa 1876)
Patty Prather Thum (b.1853, d.1926)
Tolbert Pottery (estab. Circa 1928, closed 1930)
William D. Travis (b.1839, d.1916)
Benjamin Trott (b.Circa 1770, d.Circa 1841)
Ann Troutman (b.1897, d.1989)
Edward Troye (b.1808, d.1874)
Charles Turner (English, b.1773, d.1857)
Helen M. Turner (b.1858, d.1958)
John T. Turner (active Circa 1811-Circa 1817)

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Kentucky artists U-Z

Walter Ufer (b.1876, d.1936)
Van Ingen and Snyder (active Circa 1853-Circa 1875)
Alexander J. Van Leshout (b.1868, d.1930)
Charles A. Vaughn (b.Circa 1820)
William Ver Bryck (b.1823, d.1899)
Elizabeth Vermillion (active Circa 1846)
Leonard Wells Volk (b.1828, d.1895)
Augustus A. Von Smith (active Circa 1835-1842)
Waco Pottery (estab. 1906, closed Circa 1945)
William Walcutt (b.1819, d.1882)
Ferdinand Graham Walker (b.1859, d.1927)
Wallace, Lithgow and Company (estab. 1836, closed 1861)
Elijah Warner (d.1829)
William Warner (b.Circa 1813, d.1848)
Asa Coolidge Warren (b.1819, d.1904)
S. W. Warriner (active 1845-1855)
Webster and Brother (active Circa 1851-1860)
Adolph Alexander Weinman (b.1870, d.1952)
Robert Walter Weir (b.1803, d.1889)
William Wellstood & Company (active Circa 1850s-1870s)
William Edward West (b.1788, d.1857)
Frederick Weygold (b.1870, d.1941)
Samuel Wherritt (b.1799, d.1877)
Jesse H. Whitehurst (b.Circa 1820, d.1875)
Ulfert Wilke (b.1907, d.1987)
Charles Sneed Williams (b.1882, d.1964)
Ellis Wilson (b.1899, d.1977)
Hugh Wilson (b.1803, d.1884)
Matthew Henry Wilson (b.1814, d.1892)
Orlando Wilson (active Circa 1860)
Robert Wilson (d.1825)
Robert Burns Wilson (b.1851, d.1916)
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, b.1805, d.1873)
George Wolf (b.Circa 1837, d.1897)
Charles Wolford (b.1811)
Enoch Wood and Sons (English, estab. 1818, closed 1846)
John and Ezekiel Wood (active Circa 1845-Circa 1850)
Mary Osborne Wood (b.Circa 1819)
Thomas Waterman Wood (b.1823, d.1903)
Wood & Hughes (estab. 1845, closed 1899)
William Woodruff (active 1817-1832)
Fanny Owen Woolfolk (b.1854)
Wright
Wright and Swormstedt (active Circa 1836-1844)
Alexander Helwig Wyant (b.1836, d.1892)
Enid Yandell (b.1869, d.1934)
Zittel, Dennis (b.1835, d.1906)

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