Artists

NameInfoYears
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Weir, John Ferguson 1841 - 1926Anonymous05/15/2012
Mosler, Henrynotes
Henry Mosler’s highly detailed scenes of peasant life in the rural villages of the French province of Brittany appealed to his contemporary American viewers for their material specificity and universal themes. Mosler was a native of Silesia, Germany (now Poland), son of a German-Jewish lithographic artist who brought his family to the United...
1841 - 1920Anonymous05/17/2012
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
Enneking, John J.notes
When Enneking was orphaned at the age of 16, he left his father's farm to live with an aunt.  His first art lessons, taken at Mount St. Mary's College in Cincinnati, were interrupted when he enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War.  Severely wounded in action and discharged from service, Enneking eventually made his way to Boston to...
1841 - 1916Anonymous05/15/2012
Moran, Peter 1841 - 1914Anonymous05/18/2012
Bunner, Andrew Fisher 1841 - 1897Anonymous04/13/2012
Witt, John Harrison 1840 -  1901Alexander Lusher05/15/2012
Buck, William Henry 1840 -  1888Anonymous05/18/2012
Brooks, Alden Finneynotes
Alden Finney Brooks was born April 3, 1840, in Williamsfield, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, of Charles and Isabel [Thompson] Brooks. He received an academic education in J L. Pickard's institution at Platteville, Wis., from 1857 to 1859. Being in poor health he made the journey to Eureka, Cal., on foot in 1859. In 1861 he returned home and enlisted early in...
1840 - 1932Anonymous04/18/2013
Moore, Charles Herbertnotes
Artist, professor, architectural historian and first Director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, Charles Herbert Moore was born on April 10, 1840 to Charles and Jane Maria Moore. He grew up in New York City, where he attended public schools. Moore never attended college. He began a career as a landscape painter in the 1850s, having studied at the...
1840 - 1930Anonymous05/18/2012
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