Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Culverhouse, Johan Mengels | 
Born in
Rotterdam on August 29,1820, Johan Mengels
Culverhouse was one of six children of R. Culverhouse and C. Mengels. Culverhouse made a name for himself as a
"candlelight painter," specializing in nocturnal scenes illuminated
by moonlight or candlelight in the tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch
painting. In the same tradition he also... | 1820 - ca. 1891 | Anonymous | 05/13/2012 |
| Cummings, Thomas Seir |
Thomas Seir Cummings (1804-94) was an American miniature painter
and author, born at Bath, England. He came to New York early in life and
studied there with Henry Inman. He painted miniatures in water color, and many
of his sitters were well-known contemporaries of the artist. In 1826 he helped
to found the National Academy of Design, was its... | 1804 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Cuneo, Rinaldo |
Rinaldo
Cuneo (July 2, 1877 – December 27, 1939), dubbed the Painter of San
Francisco, was an American artist known for his landscape paintings and murals.
Early life and education
Rinaldo
Cuneo was born in San Francisco on July 2, 1877,[1][note 1] part of an Italian
American family of artists and musicians. Rinaldo was the second of... | 1877 - 1939 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Currier, Nathaniel |
Nathaniel
Currier (March 27, 1813 – November 20, 1888) was an American
lithographer, who headed the company Currier & Ives with James Ives.
Early years
Currier was
born in Roxbury, Massachusetts to Nathaniel and Hannah Currier. He attended
public school until age fifteen, when he was apprenticed to the Boston printing
firm of William and... | 1813 - 1888 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
| Curtis, Ralph Wormeley |
Ralph
Wormeley Curtis (* 1854 in Boston , † 1922 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer ) was an
American painter and illustrator. The artists living in Europe, primarily under
the influence of his painter friends John Singer Sargent and James Abbott
McNeill Whistler. Among his most famous subjects include cityscapes of Venice
in the style of... | 1854 - 1922 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
| Cushman, George Hewitt |
George
Hewitt Cushman (June 5, 1814 in Windham, Connecticut-August 3, 1876 in Jersey
City Heights, New Jersey), a top American engraver and painter of miniature
paintings and portraits of his time (second only to Edward Greene Malbone), turned early to these professions after family
financial misfortunes prevented him from entering West Point and... | 1814 - 1876 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| 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 |
| Dabo, Leon | 1868 - 1960 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Daingerfield, Elliott | 1859 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Dana, William Parsons Winchester | 1833 - 1927 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
