Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Higgins, George Frank | Little is know about George Frank Higgins, but his work suggests an accomplished artist. Higgins exhibited at the Boston Art Club during the years 1873 to 1891. He also exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum and Leonard's Auction Rooms. In a review of Higgins's work that appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript of March 18, 1874, the author noted... | active 1850 - 1891 | Anonymous | 12/08/2012 |
Fuechsel, Hermann Traugott Louis | Hermann Fuechsel studied in Munich and in Dusseldorf, under Brander and C. F. Lessing, before coming to the U.S. in 1858. He was a member of the Artists Fund Society. He began exhibiting in 1860 at the Boston Athenaeum and the American Art Union. The Crayon for February of that year noted: " ... Mr. Fuechsel has completed a sunny mountain... | 1833 - 1915 | Anonymous | 12/08/2012 |
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 |
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 |
Clarke, C. F. | Born 19th century | Anonymous | 12/05/2012 | |
Maurer, Alfred Henry |
Alfred
Henry Maurer (April 21, 1868 – August 4, 1932) was an American modernist
painter. He exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally and in
New York City during the early 20th century.
Biography
Maurer was
born in New York City. He was the son of German-born Louis Maurer, a
lithographer. At age sixteen, Maurer quit school to... | 1868 - 1932 | Anonymous | 11/19/2012 |
Mignot, Louis Remy |
The career
of Louis Rémy Mignot
defies easy categorization. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Mignot studied painting in the Netherlands, began his
professional career in the fold of the Hudson River School (specifically, in
the Tenth Street Studio Building), painted in the Andes alongside Frederic
Church, and experimented with European... | 1831 - 1870 | Anonymous | 11/19/2012 |
Desch, Frank H. | 1873 - 1934 | Anonymous | 11/18/2012 | |
Agate, Alfred Thomas |
Alfred Thomas Agate (February 14, 1812, in Sparta, New York – January 5, 1846, Washington, D.C.) was a noted American artist, painter and miniaturist.
Agate lived in New York from 1831–1838. He studied with his brother, Frederick Styles Agate, a portrait and historical painter. He later went on to study with Thomas Seir Cummings.[citation needed]... | 1812 - 1846 | Anonymous | 11/17/2012 |
Stark, Otto |
Otto Stark
(1859–1926) was an American Impressionist painter who was considered to
be a member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana artists. Stark's work most clearly
showed the influence of Impressionism, and he often featured children in his
work.
He began
his career as a commercial woodcarver's apprentice in Indianapolis until an
ankle injury... | 1859 - 1926 | Anonymous | 11/17/2012 |