28 American still life painters

Elizabeth Baker Bohan was a British-born American author, journalist, artist, and social reformer.

Samuel Marsden Brookes was an English-born American painter. He specialized in still lifes of fish and game, but began as a portrait painter and also produced some landscapes.

Soren Emil Carlsen was an American Impressionist painter who emigrated to the United States from Denmark. He became known for his still lifes. Later in his career Carlsen expanded his range of subjects to include landscapes and marines as well.

Jefferson David Chalfant was an American painter who is remembered mostly for his trompe l'oeil still life paintings.

Bruno Civitico was an Italian-born American painter, draughtsman and teacher. He is widely considered to be "a major player in the development of Classicism," and "one of the most important artists of the Neoclassical Figurative revival movement."

Joseph Decker was a German-born American painter who specialized in still-lifes. His subjects were mostly of edible, rather than man-made objects.

Guy Diehl is an American artist best known for still life paintings and prints, many of which incorporate direct references to historically significant artists and artworks.

Doris Downes is an American botanical artist, painter of natural history. and a writer for the Environmental Governance Institute. She also works in Interactive Design, and was Creative Director at Sotheby's, before becoming a full-time artist in 2003. She is also the literary executor to Robert Hughes.

John F. Francis was an American painter, primarily of still lifes.

Wilhelmina Weber Furlong (1878–1962) was a German American artist and teacher.

Richard La Barre Goodwin, also known as LaBarre Goodwin, was an American trompe-l'oeil painter best known for his depictions of cabin doors, but also active in portraits and still lives of fruit, flowers, and kitchen scenes.

Virginia Granbery (1831–1921) was an American painter.

John Haberle (1856–1933) was an American painter in the trompe l'oeil style. His still lifes of ordinary objects are painted in such a way that the painting can be mistaken for the objects themselves. He is considered one of the three major figures—together with William Harnett and John F. Peto—practicing this form of still life painting in the United States in the last quarter of the 19th century.

Raymond Han is an American painter who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1931, and died in upstate New York in 2017. After study with Willson Young Stamper (1912–1988) at the Honolulu Museum of Art, Han moved to New York City and studied at the Art Students League of New York with Frank Mason and Robert Beverly Hale (1901–1985). Han lived and worked in upstate New York for the last period of his working life.

Anna Eliza Hardy was a painter prominent in a 19th century school of painters in Bangor, Maine. She was the daughter and collaborator of Jeremiah Pearson Hardy, himself a prominent portrait painter in Bangor. and Catherine Sears Wheeler Hardy. She was born in Bangor, Maine, the youngest of four children and the only daughter in the family. Hardy died in Jamaica Plain, Mass. after a long painting career.

William Michael Harnett was an Irish-American painter known for his trompe-l'œil still lifes of ordinary objects.

Robert Coleman Jackson is an American painter and author based in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. He is known for his realistic still life paintings.

Anna Lownes was an American painter of still lifes.

Marshall Everett Merritt was an American artist. An impressionist painter, he specialized in seascapes, particularly oil depictions of the California coast. He also painted many landscapes, portraits and still lifes.

Frances Miller Mumaugh was an American still-life painter. She exhibited an oil, A Dreamer, at the World's Congress of Representative Women of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893; and was also an exhibitor at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904.

Hermann Dudley Murphy was an American painter, known mostly for still-lifes and landscapes. He also worked as an illustrator, art teacher and frame designer.

Raphaelle Peale is considered the first professional American painter of still-life.

Rubens Peale was an American museum administrator and artist. Born in Philadelphia, he was the son of artist-naturalist Charles Willson Peale. Due to his weak eyesight, he did not practice painting seriously until the last decade of his life, when he painted still life.

John Frederick Peto was an American trompe l'oeil painter who was long forgotten until his paintings were rediscovered along with those of fellow trompe l'oeil artist William Harnett.

Cadurcis Plantagenet Ream, also referred to as Carducius Plantagenet Ream was an American still-life painter who specialized in fruit. The currently available art gallery and biographical sources are almost evenly divided as to what his actual first name was. Some give both.

Hannah Brown Skeele was an American painter, best known for her still-lifes, although she also produced portraits and pictures of animals.

Lilly Martin Spencer was one of the most popular and widely reproduced American female genre painters in the mid-nineteenth century. She primarily painted domestic scenes, paintings of women and children in a warm happy atmosphere, although over the course of her career she would also come to paint works of varying style and subject matter, including the portraits of famous individuals such as suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Although she did have an audience for her work, Spencer had difficulties earning a living as a professional painter and faced financial trouble for much of her adult life.

Andrew John Henry Way was a portraitist and still life painter born in 1826 in Washington, D.C.. He died in 1888 in Baltimore, Maryland.