This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking.

Born before 1800 John White (), artist-illustrator, surveyor

Thomas Smith (), painter John Smybert (1688–1751), painter Robert Feke (/1707–1750), painter Joseph Badger (/1708–1765), painter Jeremiah Theus (1716–1774), painter Patience Wright (1725–1786), sculptor John Hesselius (1728–1778), painter John Singleton Copley (–1815), painter Benjamin West (1738–1820), painter Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827), painter Henry Benbridge (1743–1812), painter James Peale (1749–1831), painter Ralph Earl (1751–1801), painter

Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828), painter John Trumbull (1756–1843), painter William Rush (1756–1833), sculptor Christian Gullager (1759-1826), painter James Earl (1761–1796), painter Mather Brown (1761–1831), painter Edward Savage (1761–1817), painter John Brewster Jr. (1766–1854), painter Ruth Henshaw Bascom (1772–1848), folk art portraitist William Jennys (1774–1859), primitive portrait painter Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825), painter Cephas Thompson (1775–1856), portrait painter John Vanderlyn (1775–1852), painter Jacob Eichholtz (1776–1842), portrait painter Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860), painter Washington Allston (1779–1843), painter Edward Hicks (1780–1849), painter

John Wesley Jarvis (–1839), painter Thomas Sully (1783–1872), painter Solomon Willard (1783–1861), stone carver Rubens Peale (1784–1865), painter Bass Otis (1784–1861), painter John James Audubon (1785–1851), painter of birds and nature Charles Bird King (1785–1862), portrait painter James Frothingham (1786–1864), painter John Lewis Krimmel (1786–1821), America's first genre painter William Edward West (1788–1859), portrait painter Hannah Cohoon (1788–1864), painter Sarah Goodridge (1788–1853), painter of miniatures Matthew Harris Jouett (1788–1827), portrait artist

Hezekiah Augur (1791–1858), sculptor, inventor Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872), painter, inventor Susanna Paine (1792–1862), portrait artist Alvan Fisher (1792–1863), painter James Bowman (–1842), painter Thomas Doughty (1793–1856), painter Amasa Hewins (1795–1855), painter George Catlin (1796–1872), painter Asher Durand (1796–1886), painter John Neagle (1796–1865), painter Elizabeth Goodridge (1798–1882), miniaturist painter Titian Peale (1799–1885), painter

Born 1800–1809 1800

Francis Alexander (d. 1881), painter Sarah Miriam Peale (d. 1885), portrait painter

1801 John Quidor (d. 1881), painter Thomas Cole (d. 1848), painter Henry Inman (d. 1846), painter

1803 Robert Walter Weir (d. 1889), painter

1804 Fitz Henry Lane (d. 1865), painter

1805 Hiram Powers (d. 1873), sculptor

Horatio Greenough (d. 1852), sculptor

1806

Peter Rindisbacher (d. 1834), Swiss-born watercolorist, illustrator

1807 William Sidney Mount (d. 1868), painter

1808 Seth Eastman (d. 1875), painter, illustrator

1809 James Guy Evans (1809/1810–1859), painter Moses Billings (d. 1884), portrait painter George Winter (d. 1876), English-born portrait painter noted for his pictures of Potawatomi and Miami figures

Born 1810–1819 1811

William Page (d. 1885), painter George Caleb Bingham (d. 1879), painter John William Casilear (d. 1893), painter

1812 Jane Stuart (d. 1888), portrait painter Peter F. Rothermel (d. 1895), painter

1813 Asahel Lynde Powers (d. 1843), portrait painter Nathaniel Currier (d. 1888), lithographer William Ranney (d. 1857), painter George Peter Alexander Healy (d. 1894), portrait painter Joseph Goodhue Chandler (d. 1884), portrait painter

1814 Edward Bailey (d. 1903), painter

1815

Joseph Horace Eaton (d. 1896), New Mexico landscapes

1816 Daniel DeWitt Tompkins Davie (d. 1877), photographer John Frederick Kensett (d. 1872), painter Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (d. 1868), painter George Whiting Flagg (d. 1898), painter

1817

Benjamin Champney (d. 1907), painter

1819 James Augustus Suydam (d. 1865), painter Richard Saltonstall Greenough (d. 1904), sculptor Martin Johnson Heade (d. 1904), painter

Born 1820–1829 1820 Aramenta Dianthe Vail (d. 1888), painter John E. Weyss (d. 1903), artist, cartographer Worthington Whittredge (d. 1910), painter

1821

Robert S. Duncanson (d. 1872), painter, muralist Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (d. 1906), Hawaiian-born painter, sketch artist

1822 Mathew Brady (d. 1896), photographer

1823 Jasper Francis Cropsey (d. 1900), painter William Hart (d. 1894), painter Sanford Robinson Gifford (d. 1880), painter Daniel Folger Bigelow (d. 1910), painter Thomas Waterman Wood (d. 1903), painter

1824

James Merritt Ives (d. 1895), lithographer William Morris Hunt (d. 1879), painter Eastman Johnson (d. 1906), painter Vincent Colyer (d. 1888), painter Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome (d. 1910), painter

1825 George Inness (d. 1894), painter Benjamin Paul Akers (d. 1861), sculptor William Henry Rinehart (d. 1874), sculptor Jacob Guptil Fletcher (d. 1889), painter

1826

Caroline L. Ormes Ransom (d. 1910), painter Frederic Edwin Church (d. 1900), painter

1827 Candace Wheeler (d. 1923), interior design, textile design David Johnson (d. 1908), painter Francis Blackwell Mayer (d. 1899), painter

1828 James McDougal Hart (d. 1901), painter Jervis McEntee (d. 1891), painter Edward Mitchell Bannister (d. 1901), painter

1829 Edward Moran (d. 1901), painter

Thomas Hill (d. 1908) Albert Fitch Bellows (d. 1883), painter

Born 1830–1839 1830

Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon (d. 1906), painter Granville Perkins (d. 1895), painter, engraver Albert Bierstadt (d. 1902), painter Eadweard Muybridge (d. 1904), photographer John Quincy Adams Ward (d. 1910), sculptor

1831 Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett (d. 1898), political portrait painter

1832 Samuel Colman (d. 1920), painter, interior designer Daniel Charles Grose (d. 1900), painter William Savage (d. 1908), painter Hermann Ottomar Herzog (d. 1932), German-born painter

1833 Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl (d. 1889), painter, daguerreotyper, engraver, portraitist Margaret Girvin Gillin (d. 1915), painter William Trost Richards (d. 1905), painter

1834

Caspar Buberl (d. 1899), sculptor James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903), painter, printmaker Dwight Benton (d. 1903), painter

1835 John LaFarge (d. 1910), painter, stained-glass window designer William Stanley Haseltine (d. 1900), painter Adah Isaacs Menken (d. 1868), painter, poet, actress Edmund Darch Lewis (d. 1910), painter

1836 Alexander Helwig Wyant (d. 1892), painter Winslow Homer (d. 1910), painter, illustrator, printmaker

1837

Thomas Moran (d. 1926), painter Alfred Thompson Bricher (d. 1908), painter Robert Wilson Andrews (d. 1922) Elizabeth Jane Gardner (d. 1922), salon painter

1838 Caroline Morgan Clowes (d. 1904), painter

1839 Robert Wylie (d. 1877), painter Robert Crannell Minor (d. 1904), painter Arthur Quartley (d. 1886), painter Henry Bacon (d. 1912), painter

Born 1840–1849 1840

Caroline Shawk Brooks (d. 1913), sculptor Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (d. 1879), artist Thomas Nast (d. 1902), caricaturist, cartoonist, illustrator Robert Swain Gifford (d. 1905), painter Thomas Hovenden (d. 1895), painter

1841 Edward Lamson Henry (d. 1919), painter Theodore Otto Langerfeldt (d. 1906), painter John Ferguson Weir (d. 1926), painter, sculptor John Joseph Enneking (d. 1916), painter

1842

Willis Seaver Adams (d. 1921), painter Elizabeth Howard Bartol (d. 1927), painter Conrad Wise Chapman (d. 1910), war painter

1843 Preston Powers (d. 1904), sculptor Alexander Wilson Drake (d. 1916), painter, wood engraver William Henry Jackson (d. 1942), painter, photographer George Albert Frost (d. 1907), painter

1844

Carl Gutherz (d. 1907), symbolist Henry Farrer (d. 1903), painter, printmaker Olin Levi Warner (d. 1896), sculptor Mary Cassatt (d. 1926), painter, printmaker Edmonia Lewis (d. 1911), sculptor Thomas Eakins (d. 1916), painter, photographer, sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel (d. 1917), sculptor

1845

1846

Julian Scott (d. 1901), painter, Civil War artist Alexander Milne Calder (d. 1923), sculptor

1847

Irene E. Parmelee (d. 1934), portrait artist Albert Pinkham Ryder (d. 1917), painter Vinnie Ream (d. 1914), sculptor Ralph Albert Blakelock (d. 1919), painter Frederick Arthur Bridgman (d. 1928), painter Frederick Dielman (d. 1935), painter T. C. Steele (d. 1926), painter

1848 Lilla Cabot Perry (d. 1933), painter Louis Comfort Tiffany (d. 1933), artist, designer Augustus Saint-Gaudens (d. 1907), sculptor Charles Henry Francis Turner (d. 1908), painter William Harnett (d. 1892), painter Frank Duveneck (d. 1919), painter Francis Davis Millet (d. 1912), painter

1849

George Newell Bowers (d. 1909), painter Frank C. Penfold (d. 1921), painter Jacob Riis (d. 1914), photographer Abbott Handerson Thayer (d. 1921), painter Dwight William Tryon (d. 1925), painter Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum (d. 1925), illustrator, painter William Merritt Chase (d. 1916), painter

Born 1850–1859 1850

Alfred Lambourne (d. 1926), English-born painter Daniel Chester French (d. 1931), sculptor George Hitchcock (d. 1913), painter Paul E. Harney (d. 1915), artist Antonio Jacobsen (d. 1921), Danish-born painter Robert Koehler (d. 1917), German-born painter

1851 Arthur Burdett Frost (d. 1928), illustrator, graphic artist, comics writer, painter Thomas Dewing (d. 1938), painter J. Ottis Adams (d. 1927), painter Thomas Pollock Anshutz (d. 1912), painter

1852

Charles Graham (d. 1911), illustrator, painter Alfred Richard Gurrey Sr. (d. 1944), English-born landscape painter Edwin Austin Abbey (d. 1911), illustrator, painter Gertrude Käsebier (d. 1934), photographer Theodore Robinson (d. 1896), painter J. Alden Weir (d. 1919), painter James Carroll Beckwith (d. 1917), painter

1853

T. Alexander Harrison (d. 1930), painter Howard Pyle (d. 1911), illustrator William Turner Dannat (d. 1929), painter Henry Fitch Taylor (d. 1925), painter John Henry Twachtman (d. 1902), painter John Francis Murphy (d. 1921), painter

1854

William Henry Chandler (d. 1928), painter in pastels Hugo Anton Fisher (d. 1916), Bohemian-born painter William Forsyth (d. 1935), painter Herbjørn Gausta (d. 1924), Norwegian-born landscape artist L. Birge Harrison (d. 1929), painter George Inness, Jr. (d. 1926), painter Leonard Ochtman (d. 1935), painter John Frederick Peto (d. 1907), painter

1855 Cecilia Beaux (d. 1942), painter Jacob Fjelde (d. 1896), Norwegian-born sculptor Claudine Raguet Hirst (d. 1942), still life painter James Edward Kelly (d. 1933), sculptor, illustrator Charles Henry Niehaus (d. 1935), sculptor Julius LeBlanc Stewart (d. 1919), painter

1856

Robert C. Barnfield (d. 1893), English-born painter Colin Campbell Cooper (d. 1937), painter Kenyon Cox (d. 1919), painter Charles Harold Davis (d. 1933), painter John Haberle (d. 1933), painter Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (d. 1942), painter John Singer Sargent (d. 1925), portrait artist

1857

Lucy Angeline Bacon (d. 1932), painter Alice Pike Barney (d. 1931), painter Bruce Crane (d. 1937), painter Edward Wilson Currier (d. 1918), painter Arthur Wesley Dow (d. 1922), painter, printmaker Charles Warren Eaton (d. 1937), painter Emma B. King (d. 1933), Impressionist Florence MacKubin (d. 1918), portrait painter George E. Ohr (d. 1918), ceramic potter Edward Clark Potter (d. 1923), sculptor Frank Raubicheck (d. 1952), painter John Vanderpoel (d. 1911), painter, graphics Mary Rogers Williams (d. 1907), painter

1858

Herbert Adams (d. 1945), sculptor Joseph DeCamp (d. 1923), painter Francis Edwin Elwell (d. 1922), sculptor