Artists

Thomas Seir Cummings (1804-94) was an American miniature painter and author, born at Bath, England. He came to New York early in life and studied there with Henry Inman. He painted miniatures in water color, and many of his sitters were well-known contemporaries of the artist. In 1826 he helped to found the National Academy of Design, was its...

BROMLEY, VALENTINE WALTER (1848-1877), painter, great-grandson of William Bromley (1769-1842) [q. v.], was born in London on 14 Feb. 1848. From his childhood he manifested a remarkable faculty for art, both as an original designer and as a depicter of nature. He was especially remarkable for invention and swiftness of execution. He contributed...

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...

The first historian of the American stage, William Dunlap was a passionate lover of the arts, a gifted painter, a tireless chronicler of his day and a writer of considerable charm. He wrote or adapted more than sixty plays. While subsequent scholarship has found a considerable number of innacuracies in his historical work, his first hand account of...