Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Dickinson, Anson |
Anson Dickinson, a painter of miniature portraits, was born in Milton, Connecticut, in 1779. He was the eldest of ten children born to Oliver Dickinson Junior (1757-1847) and Anna Landon Dickinson (1760-1849). As a boy, Anson Dickinson was apprenticed to Litchfield silversmith Isaac Thompson. Little else is known about his early art training. He first... | 1779 - 1852 | Anonymous | 05/13/2012 |
| Moran, Edward |
Edward
Moran (19 Aug. 1829-9 June 1901), painter, was born in Bolton, Lancashire,
England, the son of Thomas Moran and Mary Higson, home handloom weavers. Edward
was the elder brother of the painters Peter, John, and Thomas Moran. Moran
joined his parents working at the handloom at an early age. The Moran parents,
like other home textile workers of... | 1829 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/13/2012 |
| 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 |
| Teakes, Anne | Died 1827 | Anonymous | 05/14/2012 | |
| Burroughs, Bryson | 1869 - 1934 | Anonymous | 05/14/2012 | |
| Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb |
Emanuel
Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816, Schwäbisch Gmünd – July 18,
1868) was a German American history painter best known for his painting
Washington Crossing the Delaware.
Biography
Philadelphia
Leutze was
born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg (Germany), and was brought
to America as a child. His parents settled first in Philadelphia,... | 1816 - 1868 | Anonymous | 05/14/2012 |
| Burton, Charles | Died 1842 | Anonymous | 05/14/2012 | |
| Lang, Annie Traquair | 1885 - 1918 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Story, George H. | 1835 - 1923 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
