Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darrah, Ann Sophia Towne |  Ann Sophia Towne Darrah was a pupil of Paul Weber. She was a competent artist whose long career included executing pastel portraits, landscapes, and marine views. Her later works were done in plein air.
In 1858 she took part in the Bierstadt Exhibition in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum from 1855 to 1865 and at... | 1819 - 1881 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| Lanman, Charles |
Charles
Lanman was an author, government official, artist, librarian, and explorer.
Early life and education
Charles
Lanman was born at Monroe, Michigan, on June 14, 1819, the son of Charles James
Lanman, and the grandson of United States Senator James Lanman.[1] Lanman's
early life included newspaper work as editor of the Monroe Gazette in... | 1819 - 1895 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Richardt, Ferdinand |
Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (10 April 1819 - 29
October 1895) Danish-American artist, in Denmark known for his lithographs of
manor houses, and in the U.S. for his paintings of Niagara Falls and other
landscapes.
Life
Ferdinand Richardt, the son of Johan Joachim Richardt
and Johanne Frederikke
née Bohse, was born in Brede, north of
Copenhagen in... | 1819 - 1895 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Heade, Martin Johnson |
Martin
Johnson Heade (August 11, 1819 – September 4, 1904) was a prolific
American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, portraits of
tropical birds, and still lifes. His painting style and subject matter, while
derived from the romanticism of the time, is regarded by art historians as a
significant departure from that of his... | 1819 - 1904 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam |
Arthur
Fitzwilliam Tait (February 5, 1819 – April 28, 1905) was an American
artist who is known mostly for his paintings of wildlife. During most of his
career, he was associated with the New York City art scene.
Biography
Tait was
born in Lively Hall near Liverpool, England. At eight years old, because his
father went bankrupt he was sent to... | 1819 - 1905 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 |
| Gray, Henry Peters |
Henry
Peters Gray (June 23, 1819 - November 12, 1877) was an American portrait and
genre painter.
Born in New
York City he was a pupil of Daniel Huntington in New York, and subsequently studied
in Rome and Florence. Elected a member of the National Academy of Design in
1842, he succeeded Huntington as president in 1870, holding the position... | 1819 - 1877 | Anonymous | 06/18/2012 |
| Hamilton, James |
Esteemed by
his peers as "our ablest marine painter," James Hamilton won fame as
an artist who, "in his best works, exhibited the higher mental powers of
the poet, as well as rare technical skill." Born in Entrien, near Belfast,
Ireland, Hamilton emigrated with his family to the
United States in 1834, settling in Philadelphia. He exhibited his... | 1819 - 1878 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Walker, James |
James
Walker, born on June 3, 1819 in Northamptonshire, England, was a historical
painter whose works can be found in the permanent collections of the U. S. War
Department Building, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the California
Historical Society and the Tennessee State Museum among others. Not much is
known of his training, although it has... | 1819 - 1889 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Willard, William | 1819 - 1904 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Durrie, George Henry |
Born in New Haven in 1820, the son of a Connecticut stationer, George Henry Durrie remained in that city virtually his entire life. Married to a choirmaster's daughter, Sarah Perkins, in 1841, he immersed himself in the quiet pursuits of family and church. While he never achieved the fame of the most renowned nineteenth century American landscape... | 1820 - 1863 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
