Artists

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Bierstadt, Albertnotes
Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter...
1830 - 1902Anonymous01/02/2013
Mowbray, H. Siddonsnotes
Henry Siddons Mowbray (August 5, 1858 – 1928) was an American artist. Biography He was born of English parents at Alexandria, Egypt. Left an orphan, he was taken to America by an uncle, who settled at North Adams, Massachusetts. After a year at the United States Military Academy at West Point, he went to Paris and entered the atelier of Leon...
1858 - 1928Anonymous01/02/2013
Henry, Edward Lamsonnotes
Edward Lamson Henry (January 12, 1841 – May 9, 1919), commonly known as E.L. Henry, was an American genre painter, born in Charleston, South Carolina. Early life Though born in Charleston, by age seven his parents had died and Henry moved to live with cousins in New York City. He began studying painting, there and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine...
1841 - 1919Anonymous01/02/2013
Beckwith, James Carrollnotes
James Carroll Beckwith (September 23, 1852 – October 24, 1917) was an American landscape, portrait and genre painter whose Impressionist style led to his recognition in the late nineteenth century as a prominent figure in American art. Biography Carroll Beckwith, as he preferred to be known, was born in Hannibal, Missouri on 23 September 1852,...
1852 - 1917Anonymous01/02/2013
Benson, Frank Westonnotes
Frank Weston Benson, frequently referred to as Frank W. Benson, (March 24, 1862 – November 15, 1951) was an American artist from Salem, Massachusetts known for his Realistic portraits, American Impressionist paintings, watercolors and etchings. He began his career painting portraits of distinguished families and murals for the Library of...
1862 - 1951Anonymous12/28/2012
Benson, Eugene 1839 -  1908Anonymous12/28/2012
Bennett, William Jamesnotes
William Bennett was born in England. In 1799 the esteemed watercolor artist Richard Westall sponsored Bennett's entry into the Royal Academy of Art in London. Bennett showed an aptitude for landscape views, paying particular attention to topographical detail and the subtleties of light and atmosphere. Enrollment in the British forces in 1803 cut short...
1787 - 1844Anonymous12/28/2012
Bellows, Albert Fitchnotes
Albert Fitch Bellows (November 20, 1829 - November 24, 1883), American landscape painter of the Hudson River School, was born at Milford, Massachusetts. Early years He first studied architecture and opened his own architectural firm in 1849, but quickly turned to painting. From 1850 to 1856 he taught at the New England School of Design in Boston....
1829 - 1883Anonymous12/28/2012
Beers, Julie Hartnotes
Julie Hart Beers Kempson is regarded as among the best and perhaps the only woman artist of nineteenth-century America to specialize in landscapes. Biography Julie Hart Beers Kempson, a painter of the Hudson River School, was one of very few professional women landscape painters in nineteenth-century America and the only one to achieve any...
1835 - 1913Anonymous12/28/2012
Beckington, Alice 1868 - 1942Anonymous12/28/2012
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