Artists
| Name | Info | Years
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| Shirlaw, Walter | ![]()
Walter
Shirlaw (August 6, 1838 – December 30, 1909) was a Scottish-American
artist.
Shirlaw was
born in Paisley, Scotland, and moved to the United States with his parents in
1840. He worked as a bank-note engraver, and his work was first exhibited at
the National Academy in 1861.
He was
elected an academician of the Chicago Academy of Design in... | 1838 - 1909 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Butler, George Bernard | ![]() George Bernard Butler, Jr. (1838-1907), portrait, genre, animal, and still life painter, was born in New York City, where he studied art under Thomas Hicks. In 1859 he went to Paris to study under Thomas Couture, then returned to serve in the military during the Civil War. Despite the loss of his right arm, Butler continued his art career in New York... | 1838 - 1907 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 |
| Ogilvie, John Clinton | 1838 - 1900 | Anonymous | 11/14/2012 | |
| Gay, Edward | ![]()
Edward Gay
was a landscape painter who really didn't fit into any particular category or school. He
learned technique from several artists with whom he studied, but was not
markedly influenced by them. His paintings depicted what he saw - no more, no
less. He did not romanticize or idealize.
Born in Ireland in 1837, Gay came to
America with... | 1837 - 1928 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Moran, Thomas | ![]()
Thomas
Moran (February 12, 1837 - August 25, 1926) from Bolton, England was an
American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose
work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family took residence in
New York where he obtained work as an artist. A talented illustrator and
exquisite colorist, Moran was hired as an... | 1837 - 1926 | Anonymous | 04/06/2012 |
| Bouguereau, Elizabeth Gardner | ![]()
Elizabeth Jane Gardner (October 4, 1837-January 28, 1922) was an American academic and salon painter, who was born in Exeter, New Hampshire. She was an American expatriate who died in Paris where she had lived most of her life. She studied in Paris under the figurative painter Hugues Merle (1823-1881), the well-known salon painter Jules Joseph... | 1837 - 1922 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Mount, Evelina | 1837 - 1920 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
| Ream, Carducius Plantagenet | ![]()
Carducius Plantagenet Ream was one of the most important still life painters of the 19th century. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Ream began his artistic career painting in New York and Cincinnati before he moved to Chicago in 1878. It was in Chicago that Ream became the city's leading still life painter and gained national and international recognition for... | 1837 - 1917 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
| Brooks, Maria | ![]() Known for her oil portraits, landscapes, genre, and flower paintings, Maria Brooks studied at the South Kensington and Royal Academy Schools in London. She opened a studio in the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, in 1881, and was known to be working in Quebec City in 1886. Sometime after this, she left Canada for the United States, painting in New York in 1889... | 1837 - 1913 | Anonymous | 04/18/2013 |
| Powers, Harriet | ![]()
Harriet
Powers (October 29, 1837 – January 1, 1910) was
an African American slave, folk artist and quilt maker from rural Georgia. She
used traditional appliqué techniques to record local legends, Bible
stories, and astronomical events on her quilts. Only two of her quilts have
survived: Bible Quilt 1886 and Pictorial Quilt 1898. Her quilts are... | 1837 - 1911 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |





