Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Curtis, Ralph Wormeley |
Ralph
Wormeley Curtis (* 1854 in Boston , † 1922 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer ) was an
American painter and illustrator. The artists living in Europe, primarily under
the influence of his painter friends John Singer Sargent and James Abbott
McNeill Whistler. Among his most famous subjects include cityscapes of Venice
in the style of... | 1854 - 1922 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
Boughton, George Henry |
George
Henry Boughton (December 4, 1833 – January 19, 1905)[1] was an
Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.
Life and work
Boughton
was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The
family emigrated to the United States in 1835,[2] and he grew up in Albany, New
York where he started... | 1833 - 1905 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
Bridgman, Frederick Arthur |
Frederick
Arthur Bridgman (November 10, 1847 – January 13, 1928) was an American
artist known for his paintings of "Orientalist"
subjects.
Born in Tuskegee,
Alabama, he was the son of a physician. He began as a draughtsman in New York
City, for the American Bank Note Company in 1864–1865, and studied art in
the same years at the Brooklyn Art... | 1847 - 1928 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
Mulhaupt, Frederick J. |
Frederick Mulhaupt was born in Rockport, Missouri, March 28, 1871 the
son of Jacob Mulhaupt of Baden and Margeret Liebig of Hesse-Darmstadt,
Germany. He grew up in the small town of Kiowa on the southern border of
Kansas, a wild unsettle Indian territory. The majority
of his professional career was spent in NYC, Boston and East Gloucester, MA.... | 1871 - 1938 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
Raleigh, Charles S. |
According
to the recollections of his daughter Flora Raleigh Phinney,
Charles Sidney Raleigh produced more than eleven hundred paintings, six hundred
of them of whaling ships. Raleigh had an early introduction to maritime
pursuits. Born in Gloucester, England, in 1831, he left home at the age of ten
and spent the next thirty years as a sailor and... | 1830 - 1925 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
Bush, Norton |
Norton Bush
was first noted for his portraits, marine views and landscapes of the East
Coast and California. Later in his career, after visiting Central and South
America, Bush devoted himself to his favorite topic, painting tropical scenery.
Norton Bush was born in Rochester, New
York, Feb.22, 1834. He first studied art in his native city under... | 1834 - 1894 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
Bridges, Fidelia |
Fidelia
Bridges (May 19, either 1834 or 1835–1923) was one of the minute population of successful female artists in the 19th century
and early 20th century. She painted small aspects of nature: flowers, birds,
and other plants in their natural settings. She first was an oil painter and
later took up watercolor painting. She was known for her... | 1834 - 1923 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
Witkowski, Karl |
Karl Witkowski was an American artist working in the later part
of the 19th century. Karl received
his training in the studio of Jan Matejko (1838-1893)
and like his mentor, specialized in genre and portrait painting.
Witkowski,
like his contemporary J.G. Brown (1831 – 1913), focused his attention on
the young shoeshine and paper boys working... | 1860 - 1910 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
McCloskey, Alberta Binford |
In early
June 1884, William and Alberta, with two-month-old Eleanor, arrived in Los
Angeles for a visit with the Binford family.
"Mr. McCloskey is an artist of some note and is now making his first visit
to the Pacific Coast. Should he find a suitable opening, we understand he will
take up his residence in our city."[17] By 1884, the Binford
family... | 1863 - 1911 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
Stewart, Julius L. |
Julius
LeBlanc Stewart (September 6, 1855, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - January 5,
1919, Paris, France), was an American artist who spent his career in Paris. A
contemporary of fellow expatriate painter John Singer Sargent, Stewart was
nicknamed "the Parisian from Philadelphia."[1]
His father,
the sugar millionaire William Hood Stewart, moved the... | 1855 - 1919 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |