Artists

NameInfoYearsUpdated byDate
Brown, Mather 1761 - 1831Anonymous12/14/2012
Zogbaum, Rufus Fairchild 1849 - 1925Anonymous12/14/2012
Doyle, William M. S.notes
William M.S. Doyle was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1769. His father was a British soldier, but Doyle seems to have lived and worked his entire life in Boston. Doyle was a silhouettist, artist of portraits of both full-size and miniature. He worked in silhouette cutting, watercolor, oil and pastel. His silhouettes were beautifully rendered in...
1769 - 1828Anonymous12/14/2012
Durand, Johnnotes
John Durand's birth and death dates are unknown, and only a few of his portraits are signed and dated. The sketchy chronology of his life is based on these few signed works, as well as on account book entries and information about his sitters. Scholars place his first activity in Virginia in 1765, but by 1766 Durand was in New York City. In that year...
1731 -  1805Anonymous12/14/2012
Melchers, Garinotes
Gari Melchers was born Julius Garibaldi (after the Italian patriot) Melchers in Detroit on 11 August 1860, the son of a German immigrant Julius Theodore Melchers and his wife Marie Bangetor. The senior Melchers was himself an artist, having been trained in Paris as a sculptor. He contributed decorations to the Crystal Palace in London, created...
1860 - 1932Anonymous12/10/2012
Fisher, D.A.notes
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 1904Anonymous12/10/2012
Hibbard, Aldro Thompsonnotes
Aldro Thompson Hibbard (August 25, 1886 - November 12, 1972) was a prominent American plein air painter. He was born in Falmouth, MA, but lived most of his life in Rockport, MA. His depictions of snowy landscapes, particularly in Vermont are highly regarded. Hibbard worked in oil; watercolor just couldn't be used in January & February in the...
August 25, 1886 - November 12, 1972Anonymous12/10/2012
Hodgdon, Sylvester Phelpsnotes
Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon studied with Benjamin Champney in Boston and later with Samuel Rouse in New York City.  In the early 1850s he worked as a lithographer for L. H. Bradford in Boston, during which time he executed views of the Flume and the Old Man of the Mountain. For thirty years he kept a studio in the Tremont Studio Building and he lived at...
1830 - 1906Anonymous12/10/2012
Hilliard, William Henrynotes
An accomplished landscape, still-life, and portrait painter, William Henry Hilliard was born in Auburn, New York in 1836.  By the 1860's, Hilliard was well known among Indian artists, residing in Madison.  He left for New York in 1876, subsequently moving to Boston and finally settling in  Washington, DC. He studied in New York City and also abroad...
1836 - 1905Anonymous12/08/2012
Hill, Edwardnotes
Edward Hill (December 9, 1843 – August 27, 1923) was a prolific artist as well as a published poet, songwriter, and newspaper correspondent. His paintings include White Mountain landscapes, southern genre scenes, still lifes, portraits, American Indians, European attractions, and the scenery of the American West. Early life Hill was born in the Union...
1843 - 1923Anonymous12/08/2012
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