Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gifford, Charles H. | 
Charles H.
Gifford was born in New Bedford, MA.
He was a late second-generation Hudson River School painter. His canvases show a distinct preference
for quiet scenes in which a luminous atmosphere veils roughness, light shines
with clarity and stillness is achieved by means of even brushstrokes. The luminist quality of his paintings was an... | 1839 - 1904 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Forbes, Edwin |
Edwin Austin Forbes (1839 – March 6, 1895) was an American landscape painter and etcher who first gained fame during the American Civil Warfor his detailed and dramatic sketches of military subjects, including battlefield combat scenes.
Biography
Forbes was born in New York, studied under A. F. Tait, and began as an animal and landscape... | 1839 - 1895 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Freeman, Bradford |
Little is known about the artist Bradford Freeman. During the 1860 Boston census, he was 21 years old and living with his parents and sister in Boston. Consistent with the few paintings he is known to have painted, he died at an early age in 1875. He exhibited with Benjamin Champney (1817-1907) as evidenced by the following excerpt (pictured)... | 1839 - 1875 | Anonymous | 12/08/2012 |
| Thurston, Fanny Robertson | Miss Fanny R. Thurston was active in the period 1876 to 1885. An F. Thurston (presumably Fanny) exhibited in the 1876 exhibition of the American Society of Painters in Watercolor. Fanny R. Thurston exhibited at the Boston Art Club in 1880, 1881, and 1882. She also exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1885 giving her address as New... | Born 1839 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Neal, David Dalhoff |
David Dalhoff Neal (October 20, 1838 – May 2, 1915), was an American artist.
Early years
David Dalhoff Neal was born to father Stephen Bryant Neal and
mother Mary (Dalhoff) Neal, on Middlesex Street, in
Lowell, Massachusetts. His grandparents were Stephen Neal, and David Dalhoff and Sally (Bean) Dalhoff
of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Dolhoffs... | 1838 - 1915 | Alexander Lusher | 04/16/2012 |
| Magrath, William |
Irish-American
watercolour painter, apparently named in the Chief
Constable's Special Branch Register:[1]
·
"McGrath,
William - suspicious Irishman at 57 Bedford Gardens"
·
"McGrath,
William - said to be connected to Whitechapel
murders".
Biography
William Magrath was born on 20 March 1838 at... | 1838 - 1913 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 |
| Grose, Daniel Charles |
Daniel
Charles Grose (1838–1900) was a prolific
Canadian - American painter of the Hudson River School who was active between
1865 and 1900.
History
Daniel
Charles Grose was born ca. 1838. His parents’
names are not known. Several sources indicate his Uncle was English antiquary
Francis Grose, however, this assertion appears to be
based on... | 1838 - 1900 | Anonymous | 07/28/2012 |
| Walker, William A. |
William
Aiken Walker (March 11, 1839 – January 3, 1921) is an American artist who
was born to an Irish Protestant father and a mother of South Carolina
background in Charleston, South Carolina in 1839. In 1842, when his father
died, Walker's mother moved the family to Baltimore, Maryland, where they
remained until returning to Charleston in... | 1838 - 1921 | Anonymous | 04/19/2012 |
| Keith, William |
William
Keith (November 18, 1838 – April 13, 1911) was a Scottish-American
painter famous for his California landscapes.
Early life
Keith was
born in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire,
Scotland, and emigrated to the United States in 1850.
He lived in New York City, and became an apprentice wood engraver in 1856. He
first traveled to the American West... | 1838 - 1911 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Ransom, Caroline L. | 1838 - 1910 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
