Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hicks, Thomas | 
Thomas Hicks (b
Newtown, PA, 18 Oct 1823; d Trenton Falls, NY, 8 Oct 1890). Cousin
of (1) Edward Hicks. After being apprenticed (c. 1835–9) in the
sign-painting shop of his cousin, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts in Philadelphia (1839–40) and at the National Academy of Design
in New York (1840–44). He then sketched... | 1823 - 1890 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Bradford, William |
William
Bradford, a 19th-century American marine painter, was born on April 30, 1823 in
Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He was
born to Quaker parents who disapproved of his desire for a painting career. He worked as a clerk in his
father’s dry goods shop in New Bedford, devoting his spare time to
sketching.
In the
early 1850s, he launched his... | 1823 - 1892 | Anonymous | 06/11/2012 |
| Hart, William |
William
Hart (March 31, 1823 – June 17, 1894), was a
Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter, and Hudson River School
artist. His younger brother, James McDougal Hart, was also a Hudson River School
artist, and the two painted similar subjects. He studied under Jules-Joseph
Lefebvre.
Biography
Hart was
born in Paisley, Scotland, and... | 1823 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Waters, Susan C. |
Susan
Catherine Moore Waters (May 18, 1823—July 7, 1900), self-taught painter
of animals and resident of Bordentown, New Jersey.
Biography
On May 18,
1823, Susan Catherine Moore Waters was born in Binghamton, New York. A
self-taught artist with little formal training, Waters did attend seminary
school in Friendsville, Pennsylvania, where she... | 1823 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Cropsey, Jasper Francis |
Jasper Francis Cropsey (February 18, 1823 – June 22, 1900) was an important American landscape artist of the Hudson River School.
Biography
Cropsey was born on his father Jacob Rezeau Cropsey's farm in Rossville on Staten Island, New York, the oldest of eight children. As a young boy, Cropsey had recurring periods of poor health. While absent from... | 1823 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Knapp, Charles W. |
Charles
Wilson Knapp was a noted landscape artist of great ability. He was born in Philadelphia in 1823 and
spent most of his life in that city.
He worked primarily in Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, the
Susquehanna River Valley, the area around the Delaware Water Gap, and the
Berkshire Mountains. He especially
enjoyed painting... | 1823 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Wood, Thomas Waterman |
Thomas
Waterman Wood (November 12, 1823 – April 14, 1903) was an American
painter born in Montpelier, Vermont.
Origins
Thomas
Waterman Wood's father, John Wood, came to Montpelier from Lebanon, New Hampshire
in 1814. The Wood family was of Puritan stock, and it was from Lebanon that
John Wood, the father of the artist, married his wife Mary... | 1823 - 1903 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
| Weber, Gottlieb Daniel Paul |
Gottlieb
Daniel Paul Weber (19 January 1823-12 October 1916) was a German artist.
He was born
in Darmstadt. He studied art in Frankfurt, and in 1848 came to the United
States, settling in Philadelphia. In 1858 he went to Darmstadt, where he was
appointed court painter. Among those of his works that are owned in the United
States are “A Scene in... | 1823 - 1916 | Anonymous | 07/18/2012 |
| Powell, William Henry |
William
Henry Powell (1823 - 1879), was an American artist from Ohio.
Powell is
known for a painting of the Battle of Lake Erie, of which one copy hangs in the
Ohio state capitol building and the other, in the United States Capitol. Powell
has a second piece of artwork displayed in the United States Capitol Rotunda,
the Discovery of the... | 1823 - 1879 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
| Hunt, William Morris |
William Morris Hunt (March 31, 1824 – September 8, 1879), American painter, was born at Brattleboro, Vermont to Jane Maria (Leavitt) Hunt and Hon. Jonathan Hunt, who raised one of the preeminent families in American art. William Morris Hunt was the leading painter of mid-19th century Boston, Massachusetts.[1]
Life and career
Hunt's father's family,... | 1824 - 1879 | Anonymous | 08/28/2012 |
