Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
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| Custer, Edward L. |  Edward L. Custer was a portrait, animal, and landscape painter. He was born in Basel, Switzerland, on January 24, 1837. Custer came to the United States in 1846 or 1847 with his family at about the age of ten, living first in Syracuse, NY and later in Manchester, NH. His father became a doctor while in Manchester.
He went to Germany to study... | 1837 - 1881 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| Darrah, Ann Sophia Towne | Ann Sophia Towne Darrah was a pupil of Paul Weber. She was a competent artist whose long career included executing pastel portraits, landscapes, and marine views. Her later works were done in plein air.
In 1858 she took part in the Bierstadt Exhibition in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum from 1855 to 1865 and at... | 1819 - 1881 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| Defrees, Thaddeus | Thaddeus Defrees was born in Boston, MA on September 27, 1855. His parents were Georgianna and William, a machinist.
Defrees's style of painting shows strong influence of the French Barbizon School. He was active in the White Mountains from at least 1877 until his death. He exhibited at the Boston Art Club in January, 1878. He was... | 1855 - 1888 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| De Grailly, Victor | I. Biography
Little is known about the life of French artist Victor de Grailly, famous for his Hudson River School-style landscapes of the United States. Born in France in 1804, he studied with neo-classical painter Jean Victor Bertin, who also mentored the great Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
Surprisingly, it is unlikely that de Grailly ever traveled to... | 1804 - 1889 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| Dolph, John Henry | John Henry Dolph is one of America's finest animal painters and he is most famous for his depictions of playful kittens and puppies that frolic on oriental rugs within Victorian interiors. Playful terrier and Kittens shows Dolph’s expertise at handling, in an academic manner, how fur, woven wool and anatomy can be painted with sureness and... | 1835 - 1903 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| Dunning, Robert Spear | Dunning was a co-founder and leader of the Fall River School of still life painting. As a boy he was employed in a Fall River mill. Later he worked in coastal shipping while studying art. In 1859 he joined with John E. Grouard to form the firm of Grouard & Dunning, artists. About 1865 he began to focus on still life paintings, although he... | 1829 - 1905 | Anonymous | 11/02/2013 |
| Eldred, Lemuel D. | Lemuel D. Eldred had formal training in Paris but retained in his best pictures a planar, Yankee austerity that seems at times primitive, at times modern. Born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, he exhibited considerable artistic talent as a child. With the support of his parents, he made his way to the Academie Julien and later embarked on a... | 1848 - 1921 | Anonymous | 12/08/2012 |
| Fenimore, Thomas J. | Thomas J. Fenimore was 31 years of age when he died of typhoid fever on July 31, 1873 in Philadelphia, PA. He was, therefore, born either in 1841 or 1842. He began as a house painter but turned to fine art. According the his death notice in the Philadelphia Inquirer of August 2, 1873, "some pictures lately painted by him show that he was... | 1842 - 1873 | Anonymous | 01/13/2013 |
| Fisher, D.A. | Fisher is known to have lived in Portland, ME. He worked at Cumberland County Power and Light (along with Frederick J. Ilsey of the Brushians group). Although not a member of the Brushians group of Portland, ME, his paintings are similar to theirs in size, style, and subject matter. | Died after 1904 | Anonymous | 12/10/2012 |
| Freeman, Bradford |
Little is known about the artist Bradford Freeman. During the 1860 Boston census, he was 21 years old and living with his parents and sister in Boston. Consistent with the few paintings he is known to have painted, he died at an early age in 1875. He exhibited with Benjamin Champney (1817-1907) as evidenced by the following excerpt (pictured)... | 1839 - 1875 | Anonymous | 12/08/2012 |
