Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fulton, Robert | 
Robert
Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer
and inventor who is widely credited with developing
the first commercially successful steamboat. In 1800 he was commissioned by
Napoleon Bonaparte to design the Nautilus, which was the first practical
submarine in history.[1]
Fulton
became interested in steamboats in... | 1765 - 1815 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Funk, Wilhelm Heinrich | 1866 - 1949 | Anonymous | 04/18/2013 | |
| Garrett, Edmund Henry | 1853 - 1929 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 | |
| Gaugengigl, Ignaz Marcel | 1855 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Gaul, Gilbert |
Gilbert
William Gaul (1855–1919), military and historical painter and
illustrator.
Biography
Born in
Jersey City, New Jersey, on March 31, 1855 to George W. and Cornelia A.
(Gilbert) Gaul, he attended school in Newark, and at the Claverack Military
Academy. In New York, he began studying art under L. E. Wilmarth
at the National Academy of... | 1855 - 1919 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Gay, Edward |
Edward Gay
was a landscape painter who really didn't fit into any particular category or school. He
learned technique from several artists with whom he studied, but was not
markedly influenced by them. His paintings depicted what he saw - no more, no
less. He did not romanticize or idealize.
Born in Ireland in 1837, Gay came to
America with... | 1837 - 1928 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Gay, Walter | 1856 - 1937 | Anonymous | 06/08/2012 | |
| Gerry, Samuel Lancaster |
In the
1840s, Samuel Lancaster Gerry was known as the leader of the White Mountain
School. This area in New Hampshire is the setting for a large number of the
landscapes for which he is most widely known, although he also painted
portraits, genre pictures and animal studies.
Gerry was born in Boston in 1813.
Although he had no formal instruction... | 1813 - 1891 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Gifford, Charles H. |
Charles H.
Gifford was born in New Bedford, MA.
He was a late second-generation Hudson River School painter. His canvases show a distinct preference
for quiet scenes in which a luminous atmosphere veils roughness, light shines
with clarity and stillness is achieved by means of even brushstrokes. The luminist quality of his paintings was an... | 1839 - 1904 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Gifford, Robert Swain |
Robert
Swain Gifford was born on a small island called Nonamesset,
which adjoins Naushon in the chain of Elizabeth
Islands off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts. When Gifford was two years
old his family moved to Fairhaven where his father was employed as a boatman
and fisherman.
Two famous
New Bedford artists worked on the Fairhaven... | 1840 - 1905 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
