Early American Art
John White 1580’s Leader of the lost colony at Roanoke His pictures of Native Americans and vegetation convinced many to invest in or settle in Virginia colony
John Trumbull First great American nationalist painter Painted battle scenes and portraits depicting Americans as heroic and noble
Paul Revere One of the Sons of Liberty Drew Political Cartoons Published a rabble-rousing but historically dubious account of the Boston Massacre
Charles Willson Peale Studied under Benjamin West Helped found the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Known for portraits
Benjamin West Patronage from King George III British-American portraits and scene painter
John Singleton Copley Best known for portraits
Georgian Architecture
Antebellum Art
Gilbert Stuart Premier portrait artist Most known for portraits of Washington
Hudson River School Mid-19 th Century Romanticized Landscape art Focused on the Catskill wilderness and land further west Goes hand-in-hand with the beliefs about manifest destiny and westward migration Painters included Thomas Cole & Frederic Edwin Church
John J. Audubon Illustrated Bird of America His name was chosen later to link with bird conservation: The Audubon Society
Architecture in Antebellum Era