Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Durand, Asher Brown | 
Asher Brown
Durand (August 21, 1796 – September 17, 1886) was an American painter of
the Hudson River School.
Early life
Durand was born
in and eventually died in Maplewood, New Jersey (then called Jefferson
Village), the eighth of eleven children; his father was a watchmaker and a
silversmith.
Durand was
apprenticed to an engraver from 1812... | 1796 - 1886 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Dunton, William Herbert |
William Herbert Dunton, known later in life as “Buck,” was born in Augusta, Maine, in 1878. His lifelong passion for the outdoors was nurtured from an early age by his grandfather, who took him on expeditions, teaching him about hunting and fishing. Drawing the outdoors followed naturally. As a child, Dunton was self-taught, developing a precise... | 1878 - 1936 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Dunn, Julia E. | 1839 - 1923 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Dunning, Robert Spear | Dunning was a co-founder and leader of the Fall River School of still life painting. As a boy he was employed in a Fall River mill. Later he worked in coastal shipping while studying art. In 1859 he joined with John E. Grouard to form the firm of Grouard & Dunning, artists. About 1865 he began to focus on still life paintings, although he... | 1829 - 1905 | Anonymous | 11/02/2013 |
| Dunlap, William |
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... | 1766 - 1839 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
| Duncanson, Robert Scott |
Robert Scott Duncanson (1821 – December 21, 1872) was born in Seneca County, New York in 1821.[1] Duncanson’s father was a Canadian of Scottish descent and his mother was an African American, thus making him “a freeborn person of color.”[2] Duncanson, an artist who is relatively unknown today, painted America, both physically and figuratively,... | 1821 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Dubourjal, Savinien Edme | 1795 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Drew, Clement |
Clement Drew (1806-1889) was an artist and "dealer in picture-frames" in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1] He specialized in marine paintings. He kept a studio on Court Street (ca.1840s-1860s),[2][3] Tremont Street (in the Boston Museum building, ca.1873), Copeland Street (ca.1888),[4] and Tremont Temple (1889).[5] He married Elizabeth... | 1806 - 1889 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Doyle, William M. S. | William M.S. Doyle was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1769. His father was a British soldier, but Doyle seems to have lived and worked his entire life in Boston. Doyle was a silhouettist, artist of portraits of both full-size and miniature. He worked in silhouette cutting, watercolor, oil and pastel. His silhouettes were beautifully rendered in... | 1769 - 1828 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 |
| Dow, Arthur Wesley |
An
innovative artist and influential art theorist and teacher, Arthur Wesley Dow
was a proponent of pure design principles rather than literal naturalism as the
basis for art. Dow was a native of Ipswich, Massachusetts, whose flat coastal
landscape and subtly shifting light proved a powerful source of aesthetic
inspiration. He studied art privately... | 1857 - 1922 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
