Artists
| Name | Info | Years
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| 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 |
| Hofmann, Charles C. | ![]()
Charles C. Hofmann was born in Germany around 1820, and immigrated to America in 1860, arriving in the port of New York. In subsequent years he lived in several communities along Pennsylvania's Schuylkill River, sometimes as a resident/patient of the public poorhouses. He is the best-known of the three so-called "Pennsylvania Almshouse Painters," the... | 1820 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| 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 |
| Vail, Aramenta Dianthe | 1820 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| Snell, George | 1820 - 1893 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Richards, Thomas Addison | ![]()
During the
first half of the nineteenth century artists fanned out across the northeastern
United States to find aesthetic inspiration in nature. Thomas Addison Richards
was one of the few who traveled extensively in the South. Through his
paintings, illustrated magazine articles, and guidebooks, Richards introduced
the natural beauty and distinct... | 1820 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Falconer, John Mackie | ![]()
John Mackie
Falconer (1820–1903) was a Scottish-born American etcher, painter, and
watercolorist. Born in Edinburgh, he came to the United States in 1836.
A full
member of the New York Etching Club, he was made an honorary member of the
National Academy of Design in 1856. He is known for studies of older buildings
and ruins. Falconer was a... | 1820 - 1903 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Whittredge, Worthington | ![]()
Thomas
Worthington Whittredge[1] (May 22, 1820 - February 25, 1910) was an American
artist of the Hudson River School. Whittredge was a highly regarded artist of
his time, and was friends with several leading Hudson River School artists
including Albert Bierstadt and Sanford Robinson Gifford. He traveled widely and
excelled at landscape painting,... | 1820 - 1910 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Culverhouse, Johan Mengels | ![]()
Born in
Rotterdam on August 29,1820, Johan Mengels
Culverhouse was one of six children of R. Culverhouse and C. Mengels. Culverhouse made a name for himself as a
"candlelight painter," specializing in nocturnal scenes illuminated
by moonlight or candlelight in the tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch
painting. In the same tradition he also... | 1820 - ca. 1891 | Anonymous | 05/13/2012 |
| Sheys, William P. | Died 1821 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |





