Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darrah, Ann Sophia Towne |  Ann Sophia Towne Darrah was a pupil of Paul Weber. She was a competent artist whose long career included executing pastel portraits, landscapes, and marine views. Her later works were done in plein air.
In 1858 she took part in the Bierstadt Exhibition in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum from 1855 to 1865 and at... | 1819 - 1881 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| Fagnani, Joseph | 1819 - 1873 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Nichols, Edward Willard | 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 - 1871 | Anonymous | 03/15/2014 |
| Cafferty, James H. | 1819 - 1869 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Suydam, James Augustus |
The work of
James Augustus Suydam, characterized by idealized
tranquil landscapes and seascapes illuminated by softly sunlit skies, is emblematic of the American Luminist
movement of the nineteenth century.
Biography
James
Augustus Suydam was born on March 27, 1819 in New
York City. Suydam’s family was of Dutch
decedent, tracing their ancestry... | 1819 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/24/2012 |
| Miller, George M. |
George M.
Miller was a stone-cutter, potter, and sculptor who often "modeled"
in wax. Among biographical sources there is disagreement about whether his
birthplace was Scotland or Germany, and about the original spelling of his last
name: Muller, Müller, or Miler. Nothing is known
about his family, education, or date of birth.
Miller had
come to... | Died 1819 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Sachs, Lambert |
Lambert
Sachs, a painter of portraits, landscapes, and history pictures, was born in
Mannheim, Germany, on 5 November 1818. He was the son of Anna Margarete Diel and Carl Bartolomaus Sachs, a professor at the Mannheim Lyceum where
Lambert studied for five years.
Sachs began
his education in drawing and painting in April 1832 at the painting museum... | 1818 - 1903 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Miller, William Rickarby |
William was the son of the English landscape painter, Joseph Miller and most likely studied under him in England. In the winter of 1844, William immigrated to America and settled in New York City. He initially worked as a portraitist, but then began traveling across the Eastern U.S. to discover new landscape subjects. Throughout Miller’s prolific... | 1818 - 1893 | Anonymous | 03/04/2013 |
| Hope, James |
James Hope
was born in Scotland and, following the death of his mother, accompanied his
father to Canada. At the age of
twelve he was orphaned in a cholera outbreak. Soon apprenticed to a wagon maker in
Vermont, he quickly demonstrated that his native intelligence and artistic
talent precluded a tradesman's career.
With money saved he... | 1818 - 1892 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
| Brown, John Henry |
John Henry
Brown
(Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, 1818-1891, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Brown's
prolific career illuminates the fate of antebellum miniaturists. He began an
apprenticeship in 1836 to the painter Arthur Armstrong (1798-1851) while
working as a clerk in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Recorder's Office. In 1839
Brown established himself as a... | 1818 - 1891 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
