Born on the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena—the place of Napoleon’s final exile—Everett B. D. Julio is believed to be of Scottish and Italian descent. Little is known about his childhood except that he was sent to Paris for his early education. Around 1860, he immigrated to America, living first in ... MORE

Margaret Moffett Law was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina to parents of prominent and wealthy Southern lineage. She graduated from Converse College in 1895 and then went on to advanced study at some of the nation's most respected art institutions. For her era, Law manifested an unusual degree of dedication and independence in pursuing her ... MORE

Born in Canada on Prince Edward Island, Hal Morrison graduated from Harvard Medical School. He spent two years as a physician with the Intercolonial Railroad, before "abandoning that profession entirely to rove over the whole world and paint what pleased me." The following seven years included travel and study in Europe until, by ... MORE

One of the leading Impressionist landscape painters of the early twentieth century in America, William Posey Silva was born in Savannah, Georgia, where he attended Chatham Academy. He studied engineering at the University of Virginia and was a partner in his family's hardware and china business in Chattanooga, Tennessee from 1887 to 1907. ... MORE

Alice Smith is one of the most celebrated and accomplished artists of the Charleston Renaissance, well known for lyrical, tonalist watercolors. Born to a distinguished family in Charleston, she took early drawing and watercolor training at the Carolina Art Association, but was largely self-taught, developing her ... MORE

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, William Aiken Walker was a successful itinerant artist who spent much of his life traveling throughout the South creating paintings of rural and urban genre scenes, figures and landscapes. Following a route of major port cities, railroad towns, and resort spots from Baltimore to Charleston to New Orleans, he ... MORE