Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bromley, Valentine Walter | 
BROMLEY,
VALENTINE WALTER (1848-1877), painter, great-grandson of William Bromley
(1769-1842) [q. v.], was born in London on 14 Feb. 1848. From his childhood he
manifested a remarkable faculty for art, both as an original designer and as a
depicter of nature. He was especially remarkable for invention and swiftness of
execution. He contributed... | 1848 - 1877 | Anonymous | 04/06/2012 |
| Frerichs, William Charles Anthony |
Frerichs
was born in Ghent Belgium, the son of William Daniel, a general in the Dutch
Army. His name at birth was Wilhelm
Karel Anthonius Frerichs. He
was educated in Belgium, having studied medicine at the University of Leyden
and art at the Royal Academies in The Hague and Brussels. When he was only 18 years old, he
completed a 12 x 17 foot... | 1829 - 1905 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Dunlap, William |
The first historian of the American stage, William Dunlap was a passionate lover of the arts, a gifted painter, a tireless chronicler of his day and a writer of considerable charm. He wrote or adapted more than sixty plays. While subsequent scholarship has found a considerable number of innacuracies in his historical work, his first hand account of... | 1766 - 1839 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
| Washington, William Dickinson |
William D. Washington[1] (October 7, 1833 – December 2, 1870[2]) was
an American painter and teacher of art. He is most famous for his painting The
Burial of Latané, which became a symbol of the
Lost Cause of the Confederacy in the years following the American Civil War[3], and for the work he did in establishing the fine
arts program of the... | 1833 - 1870 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Haas, William Frederick De |
William
Frederick de Haas’s coastal scenes put forward
a pictorial language of serenity, silence, and solitude. Born in Holland, de
Haas studied at The Hague and moved to the United States at the age of
twenty-four. Armed with the precepts of Dutch painting, he turned his attention
to the American coast. He worked in New York’s Tenth Street... | 1830 - 1880 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Hahn, William |
William
Hahn was born in Saxony, Germany in 1829. He studied at the Royal Academy of
Art in Dresden and the Dusseldorf Academy. Around 1870, Hahn met the artist
William Keith and moved with him first to Boston then San Francisco in 1872
where the two shared a studio. Hahn enjoyed tremendous success, taking extended
painting trips throughout... | 1829 - 1887 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Bartlett, William Henry |
William
Henry Bartlett (March 26, 1809 – September 13, 1854) was a British
artist, best known for his numerous steel engravings.
Biography
Bartlett
was born in Kentish Town, London in 1809. He was apprenticed to John Britton
(1771–1857), and became one of the foremost illustrators of topography of
his generation.
He
travelled throughout... | 1809 - 1854 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
| Powell, William Henry |
William
Henry Powell (1823 - 1879), was an American artist from Ohio.
Powell is
known for a painting of the Battle of Lake Erie, of which one copy hangs in the
Ohio state capitol building and the other, in the United States Capitol. Powell
has a second piece of artwork displayed in the United States Capitol Rotunda,
the Discovery of the... | 1823 - 1879 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
| Scarborough, William H. |
William
Harrison Scarborough was born on November 7, 1812 in Dover, Tennessee. While
his family heritage was English, the Scarboroughs had been living in America
for two generations at the time of William's birth. Growing up, William's
parents encouraged each of their thirteen children to pursue their educations,
and at sixteen he left home to... | 1812 - 1871 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Hennessy, William John |
Hennessy
spent the summer months in Normandy where he had a residence close to the port
of Honfleur. A school of painting, based in Saint Siméon’s Inn, was already well established
there. Corot, Isabey and Huet
were amongst the first painters of the group. Boudin,
who was born there, invited Courbet, Jongkind and
Monet to join them. It was at... | 1839 - 1917 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
