Artwork during that Americans did were brought on by the European
style of artwork. America eventually warped that style into their own
personal style concerning the type of people from different cultures
who had settled in America. Spanish and Indian cultures were where
folk art came from. They were mainly of church and other religious
focused artwork. The painting style from the English was also a hand
in the definition of the nation's artwork. Also before cameras were
invented an artist would come and paint a picture of its subjects. At
times a single artist would paint the same family's portraits year after
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the style of painting was
more pointed towards romanticism that at the time was popular in
Europe. Rather than the straight forwardness of the earlier years.
Many of the artist that came about in the time era of the eighteenth
century to eighteen eighty were fine examples of this gradual change.
Many of the artists soon to be mentioned helped with the definition of
American art work during the eighteen hundreds.
Such as Rembrandt Peale who was known for his originality and
nature of his portraits. Rembrandt's father was Charles Willson Peale
was a very successful artist also known for his portraits of famous
revolutionary heroes such as George Washington; who inspired him to
become a painter after many members of his family were painters.
During the 1820's he did history related paintings which would be the
basis for dozens of copies in later years while also promoting art and
aspiring to create an elevated national artistic expression. In the
1850's his art tended to be more towards repetitiveness and was
rather stiff as his art headed towards a dramatic shift in tastes and
Joshua Johnson, a mulatto was America's first professional black
painter. Whom bought his freedom out of slavery from the money he
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