List of American Artists Before 1900 - Born Before 1800

Born Before 1800

• John White (c. 1540 – c. 1606), artist-illustrator, surveyor
• John Smybert, (1688–1751), painter
• Robert Feke (ca. 1705 or 1707–1750), 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
• James Peale (1749–1831), painter
• Ralph Earl (1751–1801), painter
• Gilbert Charles Stuart (1755–1828), painter
• William Rush (1756–1833), sculptor
• John Trumbull (1756–1843), painter
• Edward Savage, (1761-1817), painter
• James Earl (1761–1796), painter
• Mather Brown (1761–1831), painter
• John Brewster Jr. (1766–1854), painter
• William Jennys (1774–1859), American primitive portrait painter
• Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825), painter
• John Vanderlyn (1776–1852), painter
• Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860), painter
• Washington Allston (1779–1843), painter
• John Wesley Jarvis (c. 1781 – 1839), painter
• Thomas Sully (1783–1872), painter
• Solomon Willard (1783–1861), stone carver
• Rubens Peale (May 4, 1784 – July 17, 1865), painter
• John James Audubon (1785–1851) painter of birds and nature
• James Frothingham (1786–1864), painter
• John Lewis Krimmel (1786–1821) America's first genre painter
• Hezekiah Augur (1791–1858), sculptor and inventor
• Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872), painter, inventor
• Alvan Fisher (1792–1863), painter
• Thomas Doughty (1793–1856), painter
• George Catlin (1796–1872), painter
• Asher Durand (1796–1886), painter
• John Neagle (1796–1865), painter
• Titian Peale (1799–1885), painter