Artists
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Goodridge, Eliza |
Elizabeth (Eliza) Goodridge (1798–1882) was an American painter who specialized in miniatures. She was the younger sister of Sarah Goodridge, also an American miniaturist.
Goodridge was born in Templeton, Massachusetts, the seventh child and fourth daughter of Ebenezer Goodridge and his wife Beulah Childs. Eliza's earliest miniatures date from the... | 1798 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Couse, Eanger Irving |
Eanger Irving Couse (1866–1936) was an American artist and a founding member and first president of the Taos Society of Artists. He is noted for paintings of Native Americans, New Mexico, and the American Southwest. His house and studio in Taos have been preserved as the Couse/Sharp Historic Site, which is listed on the National Register of Historic... | 1866 - 1936 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 |
Cooper, Emma Lampert |
Emma
Lampert Cooper (1855 – July 30, 1920) was one of Rochester, New York's
most renowned painters. She was married to painter Colin Campbell Cooper
(1856–1937).
Born in
Nunda (village), New York, to Henry and Jenette (Smith) Lampert, she moved with
her family to Rochester by 1864. She graduated from Wells College in Aurora,
New York, in 1875.... | 1855 - 1920 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Darley, Felix Octavius |
Felix
Octavius Carr Darley (June 23, 1822 – March 27, 1888) often credited as
F. O. C. Darley, was an American painter in watercolor and illustrator, known
for his illustrations in works by well-known 19th century authors, including:
James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Mary Maples Dodge, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Washington Irving, George Lippard,... | 1822 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Gaul, Gilbert |
Gilbert
William Gaul (1855–1919), military and historical painter and
illustrator.
Biography
Born in
Jersey City, New Jersey, on March 31, 1855 to George W. and Cornelia A.
(Gilbert) Gaul, he attended school in Newark, and at the Claverack Military
Academy. In New York, he began studying art under L. E. Wilmarth
at the National Academy of... | 1855 - 1919 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Farrer, Henry |
Henry
Farrer (March 23, 1844 – February 24, 1903) was an English-born American
artist known for his tonalist watercolor landscapes and etchings.
Life
Farrer was
born in London, the younger brother of artist Thomas Charles Farrer. Thomas had
studied under John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, members of the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in... | 1843 - 1903 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
Dearth, Henry Golden |
Henry
Golden Dearth (22 April 1864 – 27 March 1918) was a distinguished
American painter[1] who studied in Paris and continued
to spend his summers in France painting in the Normandy region. He would return
to New York in winter, and became known for his moody paintings of the Long
Island area. Around 1912, Dearth changed his artistic style, and... | 1864 - 1918 | Anonymous | 07/27/2012 |
DeCamp, Joseph |
Joseph Rodefer DeCamp was a successful
portrait painter; he also created exquisite interior views with a soft-edged
luminosity, as well as landscapes characterized by the broken brushwork, bright
light and color, and contemporary subjects of impressionism. DeCamp began his art studies as a teenager at the McMicken School of Design in his native... | 1858 - 1923 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
Fery, John |
Born in
Austria, John Fery earned a strong reputation for
dramatic paintings of western mountain landscape in the United States. Glacier National Park in northwest
Montana was a popular subject for him.
He was
raised in a prominent, wealthy family that lived on an estate about nineteen
miles northeast of Salzburg. His
mother was Hungarian, and... | 1859 - 1934 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Francis, John F. |
John F.
Francis (Philadelphia, Aug 13, 1808 – Jeffersonville, Nov 15, 1886) was
an American painter, primarily of still lifes.
He was born
in Philadelphia. Predominantly self-taught as an artist, he worked until 1845
as a portrait painter in central and eastern Pennsylvania. Francis's portraits
reveal his early fascination with the most minute... | 1808 - 1886 | Anonymous | 06/11/2012 |