Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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| Ward, Edgar Melville | 
Edgar
Melville Ward (1839–1915) was an American genre painter.
Ward was
born in Urbana, Ohio. His elder brother was the sculptor, John Quincy Adams
Ward. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and in Paris
under Cabanel. In 1883 he became a member of the Institut de France and was made a professor there. His
paintings which are... | 1839 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Voll, F. Usher |
De Voll’s paintings include scenes of Providence and New
York City, often showing the marine activities of the Hudson River and the New
York harbor
Biography
Frederick
Usher De Voll was an American landscapist who
depicted scenes of New York City and his home town of Providence, Rhode Island.
He exhibited frequently throughout his lifetime at... | 1873 - 1941 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Vinton, Frederick Porter |
Frederic
Porter Vinton (January 29, 1846 – May 19, 1911), sometimes spelled
"Frederick", was an American portrait painter from Bangor, Maine. He
grew up in Chicago, and moved to Boston in 1861[1] For twenty years he worked
as a bookkeeper, during which he studied art under William Rimmer at the Lowell
Institute. Soon after studying at the... | 1846 - 1911 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Vail, Aramenta Dianthe | 1820 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| Birch, William Russell |
William
Russell Birch (1755-1834) has long been recognized as the first artist to
achieve true commercial success in depicting American scenes for the domestic
market. In his early career in London, Birch was influenced by the landscape
painters whose work arose in the rich artistic ferment he encountered there in
the 1770s and 1780s. After... | 1755 - 1834 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Howard, Hugh Huntington | 1860 - 1927 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| Brown, William Mason | 1828 - 1898 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| Bridport, Hugh |
Hugh Bridport, born in England in 1794, was a portrait painter,
drawing instructor, architect, and engraver, who practiced lithography in
Philadelphia 1828-1830s. Trained at the Royal Academy and with miniature
painter Charles Wilkins, Bridport immigrated to Philadelphia with his artist
brother George in 1816. Soon after their arrival, the brothers... | 1794 - ca. 1869 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Hennessy, William John |
Hennessy
spent the summer months in Normandy where he had a residence close to the port
of Honfleur. A school of painting, based in Saint Siméon’s Inn, was already well established
there. Corot, Isabey and Huet
were amongst the first painters of the group. Boudin,
who was born there, invited Courbet, Jongkind and
Monet to join them. It was at... | 1839 - 1917 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Hays, William Jacob |
William
Jacob Hays spent most of his life in New York City but occasionally ventured to
the Adirondack Mountains of New York, Nova Scotia, and England on search for
subjects to paint. He studied art with John Ruebens
Smith, an important topographer and lithographer, and exhibited at the American
Art Union in 1848. His most inspirational and... | 1830 - 1875 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
