Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bierstadt, Albert | 
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 - 1902 | Anonymous | 01/02/2013 |
| Hodgdon, Sylvester Phelps | Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon studied with Benjamin Champney in Boston and later with Samuel Rouse in New York City. In the early 1850s he worked as a lithographer for L. H. Bradford in Boston, during which time he executed views of the Flume and the Old Man of the Mountain.
For thirty years he kept a studio in the Tremont Studio Building and he lived at... | 1830 - 1906 | Anonymous | 12/10/2012 |
| Yewell, George Henry | 1830 - 1923 | igrkio | 03/27/2012 | |
| Raleigh, Charles S. |
According
to the recollections of his daughter Flora Raleigh Phinney,
Charles Sidney Raleigh produced more than eleven hundred paintings, six hundred
of them of whaling ships. Raleigh had an early introduction to maritime
pursuits. Born in Gloucester, England, in 1831, he left home at the age of ten
and spent the next thirty years as a sailor and... | 1830 - 1925 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
| Haas, William Frederick De |
William
Frederick de Haas’s coastal scenes put forward
a pictorial language of serenity, silence, and solitude. Born in Holland, de
Haas studied at The Hague and moved to the United States at the age of
twenty-four. Armed with the precepts of Dutch painting, he turned his attention
to the American coast. He worked in New York’s Tenth Street... | 1830 - 1880 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Williams, Virgil Macey |
Virgil Macey Williams was born in Dixfield, Maine on October 29, 1830. He was raised in Taunton, Massachusetts and, after studying at Brown University, began his art training in New York City under Daniel Huntington. During 1853-60 he studied in Rome with renowned New York painter William Page and became a close friend of Page after marrying his... | 1830 - 1886 | igrkio | 05/16/2012 |
| Mignot, Louis Remy |
The career
of Louis Rémy Mignot
defies easy categorization. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Mignot studied painting in the Netherlands, began his
professional career in the fold of the Hudson River School (specifically, in
the Tenth Street Studio Building), painted in the Andes alongside Frederic
Church, and experimented with European... | 1831 - 1870 | Anonymous | 11/19/2012 |
| Loop, Henry Augustus | 1831 - 1895 | Anonymous | 11/13/2012 | |
| Wilson, Erdix Tenney | Erdix Tenney Wilson was born on October 15, 1831 in Hardwick, VT. His parents, Samuel and Martha, resided in Hardwick. The 1860 census lists Wilson as living with his parents in Plainfield, VT and his occupation as "ambrotype taker" (photographer). He married Julia B. Wentworth in April 1868.
Living in Lancaster, NH, he learned the art of... | 1831 - 1901 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Brown, John George |
Born in
Durham in northern England, John George Brown studied art while training as a
glass-cutter in Newcastle-upon-Tyne; he continued his studies at the Edinburgh
Royal Academy. After a short stay in London, Brown emigrated
to the United States in 1853, studied at the National Academy of Design, and
opened a portrait studio in Brooklyn, New York.... | 1831 - 1913 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
