Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunt, William Morris | 
William Morris Hunt (March 31, 1824 – September 8, 1879), American painter, was born at Brattleboro, Vermont to Jane Maria (Leavitt) Hunt and Hon. Jonathan Hunt, who raised one of the preeminent families in American art. William Morris Hunt was the leading painter of mid-19th century Boston, Massachusetts.[1]
Life and career
Hunt's father's family,... | 1824 - 1879 | Anonymous | 08/28/2012 |
| Hyde, Helen |
Helen Hyde
(April 6, 1868 - May 13, 1919) was an American etcher and engraver. She is best
known for her color etching process and woodblock prints reflecting Japanese
women and children characterizations.
Life
Born in
Lima, New York, Hyde spent her adolescent years in California. Her art
education began at the age of twelve when she studied for... | 1868 - 1919 | Anonymous | 08/28/2012 |
| Irvine, Wilson Henry |
Wilson
Henry Irvine (28 February 1869-1936) was a master American Impressionist
landscape painter.
Although
most closely associated with the Old Lyme, Connecticut art colony headed by
Florence Griswold, Irvine spent his early career near Chicago, a product of the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Irvine also painted across Western
Europe —... | 1869 - 1936 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jacobsen, Antonio |
Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (November
2, 1850 – February 2, 1921) was a Danish-born American maritime artist
known as the "Audubon of Steam Vessels".[1]
Biography
Jacobsen
was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Jacobsen attended the Royal Academy of Design
before heading across the Atlantic Ocean.[1] He arrived in the United States in
1871 and... | 1850 - 1921 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| James, Frederick |
Frederick
E. James (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1845 – Percé,
Quebec, 17 July 1907) was an American artist. He was noted for his depictions
of 18th-century American life.
James
trained first at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later under the
famed French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Portraits
by him of Benjamin Franklin, Stephen... | 1845 - 1907 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| Jamieson, Bernice Evelyn | An artist and teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1940, Bernice Jamieson was also a curator of New Jersey painters for the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton from the mid 1940s to the 1960s.
Source:
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art" | 1898 - 1977 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jarvis, Charles Wesley |
Charles
Wesley Jarvis, the second son of the portrait painter John Wesley Jarvis, was
born in New York City. His mother died the following year, and he and an older
brother, John, were raised by her relatives on Long Island. Jarvis' father
spent many years away from home working as an itinerant painter.
Jarvis
apparently received his earliest... | 1812 - 1868 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jennys, William |
William Jennys (1774–1859), also known as J. William Jennys, was an American primitive portrait painter who was
active from about 1790 to 1810. He traveled throughout New England seeking
commissions in rural areas and small towns.
His early
works are characterized by broadly modeled faces with a minimum of costume
detail and bare backgrounds.... | 1774 - 1858 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| Jewett, William |
A painter
of portraits, landscapes, and works of genre, or scenes of everyday life,
William Smith Jewett became California’s first resident professional
artist. Jewett was born near South Dover, New York, and he studied at New York
City’s prestigious National Academy of Design. He established a
portrait-painting practice in New York in 1833; in... | 1792 - 1874 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jocelyn, Nathaniel |
Nathaniel
Jocelyn (January 31, 1796 - January 13, 1881) was an American painter.
He was born
in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of a clockmaker and engraver. He trained as
a watchmaker, later taking up drawing, engraving, and oil painting. He studied
engraving with George Munger around 1813: they
published at least one print together under the... | 1796 - 1881 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
