Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunn, Julia E. | 1839 - 1923 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Skynner, Thomas | 
Virtually
nothing is known about Thomas Skynner, although a
significant body of work is now associated with his name. The attribution to Skynner of two pairs of portraits at the National Gallery
(John Stone, 1953.5.55; Eliza Welch Stone, 1953.5.56; Portrait of a Man,
1967.20.4; Portrait of a Woman, 1967.20.5) was made on the basis of... | Born 1840 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Smith, Phebe A. | Born 1840 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Hovenden, Thomas |
Thomas Hovenden (December 28, 1840 – August 14, 1895), was an Irish-American artist and teacher. He painted
realistic quiet family scenes, narrative subjects and often depicted African
Americans.
Hovenden
was born in Dunmanway, Co. Cork, Ireland. His parents
died at the time of the potato famine and he was placed in an orphanage at the
age of... | 1840 - 1895 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
| Thompson, Alfred Wordsworth |
Alfred
Thompson trained as a lawyer but turned to painting shortly before the Civil
War, painting both landscapes and portraits. He studied in Baltimore and in
Paris. He studied with Gleyke in 1861-62 and also with E. Lambinet
and A. Pasisi in the period 1862 to 1868.
He served
as an illustrator of war scenes with Harper's Weekly and... | 1840 - 1896 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Smith, Rufus Way | 1840 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| 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 |
| Gifford, Robert Swain |
Robert
Swain Gifford was born on a small island called Nonamesset,
which adjoins Naushon in the chain of Elizabeth
Islands off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts. When Gifford was two years
old his family moved to Fairhaven where his father was employed as a boatman
and fisherman.
Two famous
New Bedford artists worked on the Fairhaven... | 1840 - 1905 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Bunce, William Gedney | 1840 - 1916 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Smillie, George Henry |
George
Henry Smillie (1840 - 1921), brother of artist James David Smillie, was a
painter.
He studied
under his father, James Smillie, and under James McDougal Hart, and became a member
of the National Academy of Design in 1882. Like his brother, he painted both in
oils and in water colour.
His
favourite subjects were scenes along the New England... | 1840 - 1921 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
