Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferguson, Henry Augustus | 
Born in 1845 in Glens Falls, New York, Ferguson was a landscape painter and highy energetic world traveler, both in years spent and distances covered, exploring exotic motifs for his paintings. Europe, Mexico, South America, Egypt, were some of his destinations, including the daunting Andes Mountains, which he traveled over a half dozen... | 1841 - 1926 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Weir, John Ferguson | 1841 - 1926 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Sartain, Emily | 1841 - 1927 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| Stiepevich, Vincent G. | 1841 - after 1910 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 | |
| Fisher, William Mark |
William
Mark Fisher was born in Boston, MA in 1841. His family was poor and he spent a good
part of his childhood working. At
the age of 14 he was apprenticed to his cousin – a sign and house painter
– William Lawless. From this
point on he began to study art – initially taking drawing classes (during
the winter months) at the Lowell... | 1841 - 1923 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Burton, Charles | Died 1842 | Anonymous | 05/14/2012 | |
| Fenimore, Thomas J. | Thomas J. Fenimore was 31 years of age when he died of typhoid fever on July 31, 1873 in Philadelphia, PA. He was, therefore, born either in 1841 or 1842. He began as a house painter but turned to fine art. According the his death notice in the Philadelphia Inquirer of August 2, 1873, "some pictures lately painted by him show that he was... | 1842 - 1873 | Anonymous | 01/13/2013 |
| Smith, Mary Russell |
Mary
Russell Smith was born at Edgehill, close to
Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. She was a true lover of
nature and all the things of nature, wandering the fields and woods near her
childhood home, gathering objects that caught her eye. Smith had much influence
to become an an artist
because all in her family were painters. Her father, Russell, was a... | 1842 - 1878 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 |
| Mader, Louis |
Louis Mader was born in Germany in 1842 and came to the United
States in 1867, during a period when the almshouses were filling with recent
immigrants. He was first admitted to the Berks County Almshouse in 1892 and
over the next three years painted at least eight views of that institution.
Unlike Charles Hofmann, the best-known "Pennsylvania... | 1842 - 1899 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Robbins, Horace Wolcott Jr. |
Robbins
studied at Newton University in Baltimore.
He moved to New York City after college, studied under James M. Hart in
1859, and opened his own studio in 1860.
He accompanied Frederic Church to Jamaica in 1864 and continued his
studies in England, Paris, and Switzerland in 1865 and 1866. He had a studio in the Adirondack
Mountains of... | 1842 - 1904 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
