Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farny, Henry | 
Born in
Alsace Lorraine, France, Henry Farny became a
well-known American illustrator and painter, especially for quiet aspects of
Indian life such as campfire scenes.
Farny,
working in a highly realistic, detailed style, had a deep regard for Indians as
individuals, and often depicted them in an harmonious
environment. Only a few of... | 1847 - 1916 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Fenn, Harry |
Harry Fenn was known as a painter, illustrator, etcher, and
engraver. He began his career as a
wood engraver but quickly switched to pencil drawings. He came to the U.S. in 1864 ostensibly
to see Niagra Falls, but he remained for six years, then traveled to Italy to study. In 1870 he came back to the U.S. and
illustrated his first book,... | 1845 - 1911 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Johnston, Henrietta |
Henrietta
de Beaulieu Dering Johnston (ca. 1674[1] – March 9, 1729) was a pastelist
of uncertain origin active in the English colonies in North America from
approximately 1708 until her death. She is both the earliest recorded female
artist and the first known pastelist working in the English colonies.[2]
Life
Both the
date and place of... | ca. 1674 - 1729 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Lennep, Henry John Van |
Henry John
Van Lennep (AC 1837), a noted 19th-century Christian
minister, missionary, writer and educator, was born in Smyrna (present-day
Izmir, Turkey) in 1815. In 1830 he was sent to the United States for his
education. He prepared for college at Mount Pleasant Institute, Amherst, Mass.,
and Hartford (Conn.) Grammar School. After graduating from... | 1815 - 1889 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Lungkwitz, Hermann |
Hermann
Lungkwitz (1813–1891) was a 19th Century German-born Texas romantic
landscape artist and photographer whose work became the first pictoral record
of the Texas Hill Country.[1]
Early life
Karl
Friedrich Hermann Lungkwitz was born on March 14, 1813 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt
to hosiery manufacturer Johann Gottfried Lungkwitz and and his wife... | 1813 - 1891 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Young, Harvey O. |
Harvey Otis Young was born in Lyndon, Vermont on November 23, 1840. He was educated there at St Johnsbury Academy and, as a teenager, worked as an ornamental painter decorating scales. In 1859 he sailed from New York City via Panama to San Francisco in search of gold. When not panning for gold in the Salmon River area, he made many sketches which... | 1840 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Gray, Henry Peters |
Henry
Peters Gray (June 23, 1819 - November 12, 1877) was an American portrait and
genre painter.
Born in New
York City he was a pupil of Daniel Huntington in New York, and subsequently studied
in Rome and Florence. Elected a member of the National Academy of Design in
1842, he succeeded Huntington as president in 1870, holding the position... | 1819 - 1877 | Anonymous | 06/18/2012 |
| Pyle, Howard |
Howard Pyle
(March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and
author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware,
he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.
During 1894
he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and
Industry (now Drexel University), and after... | 1853 - 1911 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Newman, Henry Roderick |
Henry Roderick Newman (b Easton, New York 1833; d Florence, Italy 1918) was an American painter.
A self-taught artist, Henry Roderick Newman was influenced by John Ruskin’s landscape and nature scenes. In 1872, Newman moved to Florence, Italy to study painting and was inspired by the architecture he found there as well as the masterpieces by... | 1843 - 1917 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
| Walton, Henry |
Henry
Walton made elaborate, highly detailed oil and watercolor portraits and
miniatures as well as views of towns and buildings, in the literal, rather
stiff style of American provincial artists of the first half of the nineteenth
century. Like many such artists, Walton is a relatively obscure figure. He was
born in Ballston, New York, the son of... | 1804 - 1865 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
