Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Blythe, David Gilmour |
David
Gilmour Blythe (May 9, 1815 – May 15, 1865) was a self-taught American
artist best known for paintings which satirically portrayed political and
social situations.
Early years
Blythe was
born in East Liverpool, Ohio on May 9, 1815 to poor parents of Scottish and
Irish ancestry. After a childhood in a log cabin by the Ohio River, at the... | 1815 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Bard, James |
James Bard
was a marine artist of the 19th century. He is known for his paintings of
watercraft, particularly of steamboats. His works are sometimes characterized
as naïve art. Although Bard died poor and almost forgotten, his works have
since become valuable. Bard had a twin brother, John (1815–1856) and they
collaborated on earlier... | 1815 - 1897 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
Hays, William Jacob |
William
Jacob Hays spent most of his life in New York City but occasionally ventured to
the Adirondack Mountains of New York, Nova Scotia, and England on search for
subjects to paint. He studied art with John Ruebens
Smith, an important topographer and lithographer, and exhibited at the American
Art Union in 1848. His most inspirational and... | 1830 - 1875 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Bingham, George Caleb |
George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) was an American artist whose paintings of American life in the frontier lands along the Missouri River exemplify the Luminist style. Left to languish in obscurity, Bingham's work was rediscovered in the 1930s. He is now widely considered one of the greatest American painters of the 19th... | 1811 - 1879 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
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 |
Birch, Thomas |
Thomas
Birch, American portrait and marine painter; born in London, England, in 1779;
died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1851.
He came to
the U. S. in 1794, and assisted his artist father, William Birch, in preparing
a 29-plate collection of engravings: "Birch's Views of Philadelphia"
(1799).[1] Subscribers to the series... | 1779 - 1851 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |
Blashfield, Edwin Howland |
Edwin Howland Blashfield (December 5, 1848 – October 12, 1936), an American artist, was born in New York City.
He was a pupil of Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat in Paris beginning in 1867, and became (1888) a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. For some years a genre painter, he later turned to decorative work, where his academic... | 1848 - 1936 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
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 |
Alexander, Francis |
The son of
a farmer, Francis Alexander was born in Killingly, Connecticut, on February 3,
1800. During the winters of his eighteenth and nineteenth years he earned a
small sum teaching in the local school and at the age of twenty used it to seek
instruction in New York City. He studied for several weeks with Alexander
Robertson, but was forced to... | 1800 - 1880 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
Spencer, Frederick R. |
The
portraitist Frederick Randolph Spencer was born June 7, 1806 in Lennox, New
York, one of four children of the lawyer and first postmaster of Canastota,
General Ichabod Smith Spencer (1780-1857), and Mary
Pierson Spencer (1785-1865). He evinced an early interest for art, and at the
age of fifteen saw an exhibition of portraits by Ezra Ames at... | 1806 - 1875 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |