Artists

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Hotchkiss, Thomas Hiramnotes
Little is known about Thomas H. Hotchkiss's educational background. In 1853 Hotchkiss exhibited for the first time at the Rochester, New York, studio of Henry Johnson Brent. He soon relocated to New York City and began exhibiting landscape work at the National Academy of Design in 1856, and works within the circle of artists surrounding Asher B....
c.1834 - 1869Anonymous12/22/2012
Howe, Harry Hambronotes
Harry Hambro Howe was a marine artist who was born in Buckfield, Maine on August 16, 1886.  Howe came from a family of artists.  Both his grandfather, H. Howe, and his father, Captain T. Bailey Howe, were artists.  T. Bailey Howe taught his son, Harry, how to paint.  T. Bailey Howe was master of the Nantucket whaler, the Isabella.  Harry H. Howe...
1886 - 1966Anonymous12/22/2012
Lewis, Edmund Darchnotes
Edmund Darch Lewis (October 17, 1835 - August 12, 1910) was an American landscape painter known for his prolific style and marine oils and watercolors. Lewis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a well-to-do family. He started training at age 15 with German-born Paul Weber (1823–1916) of the Hudson River School.[1] At age 19 he exhibited at the...
1835 - 1910Anonymous12/22/2012
Lindsay, Thomas Corwinnotes
Lindsay was know as a landscape and animal painter, although he was also known to have done portraits.  He resided in Cincinnati, OH and was active from 1860  He studied in Dusseldorf in the 1860s.  Lindsay exhibited at the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition (1870-1883), Pogue's (1875), and the Art Institute of Chicago (1896).  His works are in the...
1845 - 1907Anonymous12/27/2012
Nichols, Edward Willardnotes
Though Nichols began his career as a lawyer, he turned to art as a profession by 1848.  He studied in New York City with Jasper Cropsey and continued his education in Europe in 1853.  In 1858 he opened a studio in the 10th Street Studio Building in New York City which he kept until 1862.  He began exhibiting at the National Academy of Design in 1862...
1819 - 1871Anonymous03/15/2014
Paskell, William F.notes
William F. Paskell was born in London and moved to Boston in 1872 with his family.   By the age of twenty-one he was already mentioned in the press as a very promising artist, with his paintings hanging beside the work of Childe Hassam and John J. Enneking in the annual Boston Art Club exhibitions.  Paskell married in 1900 and by 1905 had four...
1866 - 1951Anonymous12/22/2012
Rice, Henry Websternotes
Henry Webster Rice was a professional watercolourist and teacher.  Born in Pownal, Maine in 1853, he died in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1934.  By 1885, he was a pupil of Ross Sterling Turner (1847-1915).  He was also an oil painter of genre scenes and landscapes, although he painted mostly marine views of boats and fishermen.  He taught the aritst...
1853 - 1934Anonymous12/21/2012
Russ, Charles B.notes
Charles B. Russ was an artist active in the second half of the 19th century.  During the period from 1870 to 1880, Russ lived on Hancock Street in Cambridge, MA.  Russ's daughter, Annie, married Henry Lansing Millis on December 15, 1880.  The town of Millis, MA, was named for Henry's father, Lansing Millis, who made his money in railroads. Russ...
Born c. 1825Anonymous12/27/2012
Jefferys, Charles Williamnotes
Charles William Jefferys (August 25, 1869 – October 8, 1951) was a Canadian painter, illustrator, author, and teacher best known as a historical illustrator. Biography Born in Rochester, England, Jefferys arrived in Toronto, Ontario (after living in Philadelphia and Hamilton, Ontario) with his family around 1880. After attending school, he...
1869 - 1951Anonymous12/22/2012
Selinger, Emily Harrisnotes
Emily Harris Selinger graduated from the Providence (Rhode Island) High School, then attended the Cooper Institute of Design in New York City.  She also studied with Amalia Rocchi in Florence and Margaret Roosenboom in Holland.  She married the painter, Jean Paul Selinger, in 1882.  Emily Selinger was a painter, an author and poet, who was active in...
1848 - 1927Anonymous12/27/2012
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