Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Field, Erastus Salisbury |
Erastus
Salisbury Field and his twin sister, Salome, were born in Leverett,
Massachusetts, on 19 May 1805. Erastus Field showed an early talent for
sketching portraits, and in 1824 the aspiring artist traveled to New York City
to study with Samuel F. B. Morse. Field's instruction was cut short by the
death of Morse's wife in 1825, and it is not... | 1805 - 1900 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Paxson, Edgar Samuel |
Edgar
Samuel Paxson (April 25, 1852 – November 9,
1919) was an American frontier painter, scout, soldier and writer, based mainly
in Montana. He is best known for his portraits of Native Americans in the Old
West and for his depiction of the Battle of Little Bighorn in his painting
"Custer's Last Stand".[1]
Biography
Paxson
was born in 1852 to... | 1852 - 1919 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| White, Edwin |
Edwin White
(born, South Hadley, Massachusetts 1817; died Saratoga Springs, New York 1877)
was an American painter who studied in Paris, Rome, and Florence and later
taught at the National Academy of Design, in New York.
Works by
White, mostly in storage, are in the collections of Yale; The Metropolitan
Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;... | 1817 - 1877 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| English, Frank F. |
Frank F.
English (1854 - 1922)
Frank F.
English was born in Indiana in 1854. In the early 1880s, he studied for five
years in the evening classes of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His
instructors included Thomas Eakins, James P. Kelly and Thomas Anshutz.
However,
English's reputation primarily rests with his outstanding facility as... | 1854 - 1922 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Guy, Francis |
(b Burton in Kendall or Lorton, Cumbria,
1760; d Brooklyn, NY, 12 Aug 1820). American painter of
English birth. In England he was apprenticed to a tailor and then worked
in the textile trade. A business failure prompted him to leave London for New
York in 1795. By early 1798 he was settled in Baltimore, MD, where he lived for
the next 20 years.... | 1760 - 1820 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
| Remington, Frederic |
Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 – December 26,
1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who
specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating
on the last quarter of the 19th century American West and images of cowboys,
American Indians, and the U. S. Cavalry.
Early... | 1861 - 1909 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Richardt, Ferdinand |
Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (10 April 1819 - 29
October 1895) Danish-American artist, in Denmark known for his lithographs of
manor houses, and in the U.S. for his paintings of Niagara Falls and other
landscapes.
Life
Ferdinand Richardt, the son of Johan Joachim Richardt
and Johanne Frederikke
née Bohse, was born in Brede, north of
Copenhagen in... | 1819 - 1895 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Waller, Frank |
A
little-known artist of the 19th century, Frank Waller was born June 12, 1842 in
New York City. He was a painter, educator, and etcher who lived in Morristown,
New Jersey during the latter part of his life.
At 15 years
of age, Waller studied drawing at the Free Academy of the City of New York, now
known as the City College of New York, which he... | 1842 - 1923 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Frost, George Albert |
George
Albert Frost (December 23, 1843 – November 13, 1907) was an American
artist of the 19th century. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and had a
studio in North Cambridge, Massachusetts for several years. He studied under
Nicolas de Keyser at the Academy Royale de Belgique
in Antwerp.[1] His paintings were mostly landscapes,
and he is... | 1843 - 1907 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
