Artists

Albertus, born in Tarrytown, New York in 1814, was the son of a sculptor, John Henri Isaac Browere (1790-1834), famous for his plaster life masks of Thomas Jefferson, Gilbert Stuart, and others. Washington Irving’s History of New York inspired Albertus to depict Peter Stuyvesant’s Arrival at Hartford (1833), Recruiting Peter Stuyvesant’s Army...

American painter of historical, literary and portrait subjects, Louis Lang was born in Wurtemberg, Germany into an artistic family. At the age of 16, he was already producing accomplished pastels. He began his art studies in Stuttgart and later worked in Paris before he immigrated to the United States in 1838. He settled in Philadelphia and from...

Theodore Kaufmann (December 18, 1814 Uelzen, Germany - 1896 New York City) was an artist who worked mostly in the United States. Biography He served for several years as a mercantile apprentice. He studied painting in Düsseldorf with Peter von Cornelius, in Munich with Wilhelm von Kaulbach,[1] and also in Hamburg and Dresden. He took part in the...

John Toole, whose name was originally O'Toole, was born in Dublin, Ireland, on 26 November 1815 to Jane O'Toole and Michael O'Toole, a chemistry teacher. After his father's death as a result of an explosive experiment, John immigrated to the United States in 1827, along with his brother and sister. They were sent to live with an aunt and uncle who...

David Gilmour Blythe (May 9, 1815 – May 15, 1865) was a self-taught American artist best known for paintings which satirically portrayed political and social situations. Early years Blythe was born in East Liverpool, Ohio on May 9, 1815 to poor parents of Scottish and Irish ancestry. After a childhood in a log cabin by the Ohio River, at the...