Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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| Coates, Edmund C. | 
A versatile
nineteenth-century painter, Edmund C. Coates created landscapes, seascapes,
portraits, and history paintings. Born in England, Coates spent his adult life
in New York City, where he was a frequent exhibitor at the National Academy of
Design. Working in the style of the Hudson River School, Coates produced
beautiful, idealized images of... | 1816 - 1871 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| 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 |
| Closson, William Baxter Palmer | 1848 - 1926 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Cloriviere, Joseph-Pierre Picot de Limoelan de | 1768 - 1826 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Clonney, James Goodwyn | 1812 - 1867 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Clague, Richard |
Widely
credited as the founder of the landscape painting tradition in Louisiana,
French-born painter Richard Clague received most of
his formal artistic training in Europe. While landscape painting had gained
some popularity in the northern states by the early nineteenth century and
there was a strong tradition of decorative and scenic painting,... | 1821 - 1873 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Churchill, William W. | 1858 - 1926 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Chase, William Merritt |
William
Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 – October 25, 1916) was an American
painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also
responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons
The New School for Design.
Early life and training
He was born
in Williamsburg (now Nineveh), Indiana, to the... | 1849 - 1916 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Champney, James Wells |
James Wells
Champney (July 16, 1843 – May 1, 1903) was an
American genre and portrait painter.
He was born
in Boston and first studied wood engraving there, then went to Europe and
studied at the Antwerp Academy and under Edouard
Frère in Paris. His paintings include landscape and genre subjects, but
he is best known for his excellent pastel... | 1843 - 1903 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Chambers, Thomas |
Thomas
Chambers was born in London in 1808 and emigrated to
the United States in 1832. A painter of both landscapes and marine scenes,
Chambers did not confine his artistic subjects to views that he knew firsthand
but made liberal use of both his imagination and popular engraved images.
Chambers is known to have looked not only to the Englishman... | 1808 - 1866 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
