Artists
| Name | Info
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| Holdredge, Ransome Gillet | ![]()
Ransome
Gillett Holdridge was an early San Francisco school painter, specializing in
Northern California landscapes.
Biography
Holdridge
was born in New York City (or possibly London, England[1]) in 1836, and moved
to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1850s, where he became head
draughtsman at Mare Island Naval Yard. In 1874, with the... | 1836 - 1899 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Hubbard, Richard William | ![]()
Richard
William Hubbard was a prominent member of the Hudson River School known for his
luminous, delicately-painted landscapes. Born in Middletown, Connecticut,
Hubbard attended Yale College before moving to New York City to pursue his
painting career. He trained under Samuel F.B. Morse at New York University and
spent two years in Europe studying... | 1817 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| 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 |
| Griggs, Samuel W. | ![]()
Griggs was
listed as an architect in the Boston City directory from 1848 to 1852 and as an
artist from 1854 until his death. At the time of his death he was living at 63
Studio Building in Boston. The competency of his work strongly suggests that he
had professional training, and it is believed that he studied under Bierstadt
before Bierstadt was... | 1827 - 1898 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Craig, Thomas Bigelow | ![]()
Thomas
Bigelow Craig (1849–1924) was an American landscape painter[1] from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] He is known for his paintings depicting cows
(and occasionally sheep[3]) in summer environments.[3][4] Craig's landscapes
often featured meadows and streams.[4] The animals in his earlier paintings did
not take up a large part of the canvas... | 1849 - 1924 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Chambers, Thomas | ![]()
Thomas
Chambers was born in London in 1808 and emigrated to
the United States in 1832. A painter of both landscapes and marine scenes,
Chambers did not confine his artistic subjects to views that he knew firsthand
but made liberal use of both his imagination and popular engraved images.
Chambers is known to have looked not only to the Englishman... | 1808 - 1866 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Baker, William Bliss | ![]()
William Bliss Baker (October or November 1859[3] – November 20, 1886)[1][4] was an American artist born in New York City[2] who was just beginning to hit his stride as a landscape painter in the Realism movement[5] when he died at his father's house at Hoosick Falls, New York at about the age of 27[n 1] due to a back injury received while ice... | 1859 - 1886 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
| Boardman, William G. | ![]()
A member of
the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited from 1846 to 1871, Boardman
was labeled by the American Art Union Bulletin of 1848 as "very
clever." He was painting in
Jackson, NH, as early as 1847. He
was a friend of George Inness.
His White
Mountain paintings were done in the period 1848 to 1858. He painted both in the White... | 1815 - 1895 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Birch, William Russell | ![]()
William
Russell Birch (1755-1834) has long been recognized as the first artist to
achieve true commercial success in depicting American scenes for the domestic
market. In his early career in London, Birch was influenced by the landscape
painters whose work arose in the rich artistic ferment he encountered there in
the 1770s and 1780s. After... | 1755 - 1834 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Prendergast, Maurice | ![]()
Maurice
Brazil Prendergast (October 10, 1858 – February 1, 1924) was an American
Post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolor, and monotype. He
exhibited as a member of The Eight, though the delicacy of his compositions and
mosaic-like beauty of his style differed from the philosophy of the group.
Biography
Maurice
Prendergast and... | 1858 - 1924 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |





