Artists

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...

Jules Émile Saintin (1829-1894) was born in Lemée (Aisne), France on October 14, 1829 and died in Paris on July 14, 1894. He is considered a portrait, historical and genre painter from the academic French school. He received his formal art education in 1845 at the Ecole des Beaux-arts under Michel-Martin Drolling (1786-1851), Achille-Jean-...

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...

Dunning was a co-founder and leader of the Fall River School of still life painting.  As a boy he was employed in a Fall River mill.  Later he worked in coastal shipping while studying art.  In 1859 he joined with John E. Grouard to form the firm of Grouard & Dunning, artists.  About 1865 he began to focus on still life paintings, although he...

Edward Moran (19 Aug. 1829-9 June 1901), painter, was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, the son of Thomas Moran and Mary Higson, home handloom weavers. Edward was the elder brother of the painters Peter, John, and Thomas Moran. Moran joined his parents working at the handloom at an early age. The Moran parents, like other home textile workers of...