Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hicks, William | Born 1895 | Anonymous | 07/28/2012 | |
| Browere, Albertus Del Orient | 
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... | 1814 - 1887 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Champney, Benjamin |
Benjamin Champney (November 20, 1817[1] – December 11, 1907) was
a painter whose name has become synonymous with White Mountain art of the 19th
century. He began his training as a lithographer under celebrated marine artist
Fitz Henry Lane at Pendleton's Lithography shop in Boston. Most art historians
consider him the founder of the "North Conway... | 1817 - 1907 | Anonymous | 01/05/2013 |
| 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 |
| Coombs, Delbert Dana |
Delbert
Dana Coombs was born in Lisbon Falls, Maine, on July 26, 1850.
Primarily
self-taught, Coombs did take painting lessons from Scott Leighton, an animal
painter, and he studied landscapes with Harrison Bird Brown. Coombs painted actively for over fifty
years. His subjects included
portraits, landscapes, and cattle.
Coombs painted in the... | 1850 - 1938 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Boutelle, DeWitt Clinton |
DeWitt
Clinton Boutelle was born on April 6, 1820 in Troy,
New York. He was a self-educated artist but began painting “under the
influence of Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand at an early age.”(1) Both
men who influenced him were well known Hudson River School members. Boutelle
created a mix of portrait and landscape paintings during his career.... | 1820 - 1884 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| Coates, Edmund C. |
A versatile
nineteenth-century painter, Edmund C. Coates created landscapes, seascapes,
portraits, and history paintings. Born in England, Coates spent his adult life
in New York City, where he was a frequent exhibitor at the National Academy of
Design. Working in the style of the Hudson River School, Coates produced
beautiful, idealized images of... | 1816 - 1871 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Butman, Frederick A. |
Frederick
A. Butman was born in Gardiner, Maine in 1820 and
also died there in 1871 while visiting his family. He was a landscape and figure painter
active from 1857 until his death.
He was listed in the San Francisco city directory from 1859 to 1871.
Butman
owned a drugstore in Gardiner until 1857 when he moved to San Francisco. From 1860... | 1820 - 1871 | Anonymous | 04/19/2012 |
| Hetzel, George |
Realistic
painter, George Hetzel is considered one of Pennsylvania's most significant
landscape, portrait, and still-life painters of the nineteenth century.
He was born
in Hangviller, a small village in the province of Alsace, France, in 1826.
Hetzels father decided that America offered unparalleled opportunities for a
better life, however, and... | 1826 - 1899 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Clough, George Lafayette |
George
Lafayette Clough was born in 1824, in Auburn, New York, and was that city's
leading landscapist and most noted resident painter of the mid-century. His
mother was widowed shortly after his birth, and he was raised without paternal
influence. He had little formal education and was employed by the age of ten.
By age fifteen he had taken up... | 1824 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
