Artists

Fritz Müller was born in 1814 in Blumenthal, a small town on the Weser River in northern Germany. Trained as a seaman, Müller became a sea captain and lived in neighboring Bremen after 1841. By that time he apparently was married to a native of Hildenbrock, a town near Dusseldorf. In 1848 Müller left Bremen to give instruction in navigational...

Henry Mosler’s highly detailed scenes of peasant life in the rural villages of the French province of Brittany appealed to his contemporary American viewers for their material specificity and universal themes. Mosler was a native of Silesia, Germany (now Poland), son of a German-Jewish lithographic artist who brought his family to the United...

John Francis Murphy (December 11, 1853 - January 30, 1921), American landscape painter. Biography He was born at Oswego, New York and first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1876, and was made an associate in 1885 and a full academician two years later. He became a member of the Society of American Artists (1901) and of the American...

Mina Fonda Ochtman (1862–1924) was an American Impressionist painter noted for her watercolors of landscapes and coastal scenes. She was wife of the artist Leonard Ochtman, and an active member of the Cos Cob Art Colony in in Greenwich, Connecticut the early 20th century.[1] Biography and Career Mina Fonda was born in Laconia, New Hampshire in 1862....

Rhoda Holmes Nicholls (1854-1930) was an American water-color painter, born in Coventry, England. She was a pupil of the Bloomsbury School of Art in London and won the Queen's scholarship, later studying in Rome under Cammerano and Vertunni. In 1884, after marrying in Sussex Burr H. Nicholls, she removed to the United States and eventually settled...