Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guy, Seymour Joseph | 
Seymour
Joseph Guy established a reputation in the United States in the mid-nineteenth
century as one of the finest genre painters of children. His primarily
cabinet-sized pictures were esteemed by his fellow artists and leading
collectors of American art. He was widely respected for his technical ability
and knowledge of the science of painting,... | 1824 - 1910 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Bott, Emil |
Emil Bott was one of Pittsburgh's principal artists of the mid-1800's. He was born in Wurtenburg,
Germany and brought to America by his father Adolf Bott;
they arrived as part of an aristocratic religious cult organized by a certain
Count De Leon. The younger Bott lived in Phillipsburg
and went to school there until he returned to Dusseldorf,... | 1824 - 1908 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Loveridge, Clinton | 1824 - 1902 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
| Bebie, Henry | 1824 - 1888 | Anonymous | 01/05/2013 | |
| May, Edward Harrison | 1824 - 1887 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Prang, Louis | Louis Prang (March 12, 1824 – September 14, 1909) was an American printer, lithographer and publisher. He is sometimes known as the "father of the American Christmas card".
Youth
Prang was born in Breslau in Prussian Silesia. His father Jonas Louis Prang was a textile manufacturer and of French Huguenot origin. Because of health problems as a boy,... | 1824 - 1909 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Johnson, Eastman |
Eastman Johnson (July 29, 1824 –
April 5, 1906) was an American painter, and Co-Founder of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. Best
known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his
portraits both of everyday people, he also painted portraits of prominent
Americans... | 1824 - 1906 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Hitchings, Henry | 1824 - 1902 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 | |
| Clough, George Lafayette |
George
Lafayette Clough was born in 1824, in Auburn, New York, and was that city's
leading landscapist and most noted resident painter of the mid-century. His
mother was widowed shortly after his birth, and he was raised without paternal
influence. He had little formal education and was employed by the age of ten.
By age fifteen he had taken up... | 1824 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Beard, William Holbrook |
William
Holbrook Beard began his career as portrait painter. In 1856, he traveled to
Italy, Germany, and Switzerland with fellow artists Albert Bierstadt and Thomas
Worthington Whittredge. In 1858, Beard briefly
settled in Buffalo, New York, helping to establish an art community that
eventually culminated in the establishment of the Buffalo Fine... | 1824 - 1900 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
