Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hilling, John | 
John
Hilling was born in England in 1822 and arrived in America by the early 1840s,
when he settled in the coastal town of Bath, Maine. He married his first wife,
Jane (last name unknown), before 1844 and fathered at least three children, two
of whom died in early childhood.
Hill
resided in Bath until he enlisted as a private in the Civil War... | 1822 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Hills, Anna Althea |
On January 28, 1882, Anna Althea Hills (1882-1930) was born in Ravenna, Ohio. She was a great early American artist and a member of the California school of Impressionism. She is best known for her landscape, marine, genre and figure painting. Anna Hills was the founder and six term president of the Laguna Beach Art Association and helped raise the... | 1882 - 1930 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Hitchcock, George |
George
Hitchcock (1850–1913) was an American artist, born in Providence, Rhode
Island.
Hitchcock
graduated from the University of Manitoba, and from Harvard Law School in 1874.
He then turned his attention to art and became a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and
Jules-Joseph Lefebvre in Paris.
He
attracted notice in the Paris Salon of 1885 with his... | 1850 - 1913 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Hofmann, Charles C. |
Charles C. Hofmann was born in Germany around 1820, and immigrated to America in 1860, arriving in the port of New York. In subsequent years he lived in several communities along Pennsylvania's Schuylkill River, sometimes as a resident/patient of the public poorhouses. He is the best-known of the three so-called "Pennsylvania Almshouse Painters," the... | 1820 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Hopkins, Milton W. |
Milton W.
Hopkins, the son of Hezekiah and Eunice Hubbell Hopkins, was born on 1 August
1789 in Harwinton, Connecticut. In 1800 the family moved to Clinton, New York.
In 1807 he returned to Connecticut, soon marrying Abigail Pollard of Guilford,
with whom he had a child. After Abigail's death in 1817, he wed Almira Adkins and moved to Evans Mill,... | 1789 - 1844 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Horton, William Samuel |
A critic
for the Saturday Review (1928) wrote, "Mr. Horton has created a new world
on the beaches and one sees nothing in these animated scenes of customary
bathing pictures. T'were unmannerly to compare his
figures with paintings of Cézanne, for no robust, nature-loving
Englishman ever contemplated those limbs of Cézanne figures with any
real... | 1865 - 1936 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Hovenden, Thomas |
Thomas Hovenden (December 28, 1840 – August 14, 1895), was an Irish-American artist and teacher. He painted
realistic quiet family scenes, narrative subjects and often depicted African
Americans.
Hovenden
was born in Dunmanway, Co. Cork, Ireland. His parents
died at the time of the potato famine and he was placed in an orphanage at the
age of... | 1840 - 1895 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
| Hudson, Grace Carpenter |
Grace
Carpenter Hudson (1865 - 1937) was an American painter. She was nationally
known during her lifetime for a numbered series of more than 684 portraits of
the local Pomo Indians. She painted the first, "National Thorn",
after her marriage in 1891, and the last in 1935.
Early life
Grace
Carpenter was born in Potter Valley, California. Her... | 1865 - 1937 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Huge, Jurgan Frederick |
Jurgan
Frederick Huge was born in Hamburg in 1809. Of the approximately fifty known
examples of his work, most are renderings of sailing and steam vessels, which
recall the artist's youth as a seaman. Huge (at that time spelling his given
names Jurgen Friedrich) came to America as a young
man. By 1830 he was established as the owner of a store in... | 1809 - 1878 | Alexander Lusher | 05/14/2012 |
| Humphreys, Charles S. |
Charles
Spencer Humphreys was born on 18 February 1818 in Moorestown, New Jersey. He
was one of seven children of Joshua Humphreys and Abigail Cox. By the age of
nineteen Humphreys was living in Camden, New Jersey, where on 10 May 1837 he
placed the following advertisement in the Camden Mail and General Advertiser:
"House, Sign and Ornamental... | 1818 - 1880 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
