Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hudson, Grace Carpenter | 
Grace
Carpenter Hudson (1865 - 1937) was an American painter. She was nationally
known during her lifetime for a numbered series of more than 684 portraits of
the local Pomo Indians. She painted the first, "National Thorn",
after her marriage in 1891, and the last in 1935.
Early life
Grace
Carpenter was born in Potter Valley, California. Her... | 1865 - 1937 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Huge, Jurgan Frederick |
Jurgan
Frederick Huge was born in Hamburg in 1809. Of the approximately fifty known
examples of his work, most are renderings of sailing and steam vessels, which
recall the artist's youth as a seaman. Huge (at that time spelling his given
names Jurgen Friedrich) came to America as a young
man. By 1830 he was established as the owner of a store in... | 1809 - 1878 | Alexander Lusher | 05/14/2012 |
| Humphreys, Charles S. |
Charles
Spencer Humphreys was born on 18 February 1818 in Moorestown, New Jersey. He
was one of seven children of Joshua Humphreys and Abigail Cox. By the age of
nineteen Humphreys was living in Camden, New Jersey, where on 10 May 1837 he
placed the following advertisement in the Camden Mail and General Advertiser:
"House, Sign and Ornamental... | 1818 - 1880 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Hunt, William Morris |
William Morris Hunt (March 31, 1824 – September 8, 1879), American painter, was born at Brattleboro, Vermont to Jane Maria (Leavitt) Hunt and Hon. Jonathan Hunt, who raised one of the preeminent families in American art. William Morris Hunt was the leading painter of mid-19th century Boston, Massachusetts.[1]
Life and career
Hunt's father's family,... | 1824 - 1879 | Anonymous | 08/28/2012 |
| Hyde, Helen |
Helen Hyde
(April 6, 1868 - May 13, 1919) was an American etcher and engraver. She is best
known for her color etching process and woodblock prints reflecting Japanese
women and children characterizations.
Life
Born in
Lima, New York, Hyde spent her adolescent years in California. Her art
education began at the age of twelve when she studied for... | 1868 - 1919 | Anonymous | 08/28/2012 |
| Irvine, Wilson Henry |
Wilson
Henry Irvine (28 February 1869-1936) was a master American Impressionist
landscape painter.
Although
most closely associated with the Old Lyme, Connecticut art colony headed by
Florence Griswold, Irvine spent his early career near Chicago, a product of the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Irvine also painted across Western
Europe —... | 1869 - 1936 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jacobsen, Antonio |
Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (November
2, 1850 – February 2, 1921) was a Danish-born American maritime artist
known as the "Audubon of Steam Vessels".[1]
Biography
Jacobsen
was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Jacobsen attended the Royal Academy of Design
before heading across the Atlantic Ocean.[1] He arrived in the United States in
1871 and... | 1850 - 1921 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| James, Frederick |
Frederick
E. James (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1845 – Percé,
Quebec, 17 July 1907) was an American artist. He was noted for his depictions
of 18th-century American life.
James
trained first at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later under the
famed French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Portraits
by him of Benjamin Franklin, Stephen... | 1845 - 1907 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| Jamieson, Bernice Evelyn | An artist and teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1940, Bernice Jamieson was also a curator of New Jersey painters for the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton from the mid 1940s to the 1960s.
Source:
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art" | 1898 - 1977 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jarvis, Charles Wesley |
Charles
Wesley Jarvis, the second son of the portrait painter John Wesley Jarvis, was
born in New York City. His mother died the following year, and he and an older
brother, John, were raised by her relatives on Long Island. Jarvis' father
spent many years away from home working as an itinerant painter.
Jarvis
apparently received his earliest... | 1812 - 1868 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
