Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Moran, Edward |
Edward
Moran (19 Aug. 1829-9 June 1901), painter, was born in Bolton, Lancashire,
England, the son of Thomas Moran and Mary Higson, home handloom weavers. Edward
was the elder brother of the painters Peter, John, and Thomas Moran. Moran
joined his parents working at the handloom at an early age. The Moran parents,
like other home textile workers of... | 1829 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/13/2012 |
Bachelder, John Badger |
John Badger
Bachelder (September 29, 1825 – December 22,
1894) was a portrait and landscape painter, lithographer, and photographer, but
best known as the preeminent 19th century historian of the Battle of Gettysburg
in the American Civil War. He was a dominant factor in the preservation and memorialization of the Gettysburg Battlefield in the... | 1825 - 1894 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
Nahl, Charles Christian |
Carl Christian Heinrich Nahl (Oct. 18, 1818 Kassel - March 1, 1878, San Francisco), later known as Charles Nahl, and sometimes Karl Nahl, Charles Christian Nahl or Charles C. Nahl, was a German-born painter who is called California's first significant artist[1].
Early years
He was the son of Georg Valentin Friedrich Nahl (1791–1857) and Henriette... | 1818 - 1878 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
Osgood, Charles |
Charles
Osgood was born in Salem, MA on February 24, 1809. It is not known from whom Osgood
received his training, but he made his living as a portraitist until 1863. It can be conjectured that the advent of
the daguerreotype and the photograph created serious inroads on the business of
the average portraitist and caused Osgood and others to... | 1809 - 1890 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
Osthaus, Edmund Henry |
Edmund Henry Osthaus was born in Hildesheim, Germany in 1858. He attended the local Gymnasium and went on to study at the Royal Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf. He was a student of or influenced by a number of artists including Andreas Müller (1831-1901), Eduard von Gebhardt (1838-1925), Ernst Deger (1809-1885) and Christian Kröner/Kroener... | 1858 - 1928 | Anonymous | 01/02/2013 |
Nourse, Elizabeth |
Elizabeth
Nourse (b. October 26, 1859 – October 8, 1938) was a portrait and
landscape painter born in Cincinnati, Ohio in the Mt. Healthy area. She also
was familiar with working with watercolors, painting furniture and sculpting.
Biography
Born to the
Catholic household of Caleb Elijah Nourse and Elizabeth LeBreton Rogers Nourse
on October 26,... | 1860 - 1938 | Anonymous | 07/05/2012 |
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 |
Muller, Fritz |
Fritz Müller was born in 1814 in Blumenthal, a small town on
the Weser River in northern Germany. Trained as a seaman, Müller
became a sea captain and lived in neighboring Bremen after 1841. By that time
he apparently was married to a native of Hildenbrock,
a town near Dusseldorf. In 1848 Müller left
Bremen to give instruction in navigational... | 1814 - 1861 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Munger, Gilbert |
Gilbert
Davis Munger achieved great success in the nineteenth
century, painting landscapes of the newly discovered American West.
Biography
Gilbert
Davis Munger’s painting career can be divided
into three phases: artist-explorer painting the spectacular landscapes of
California, Oregon, Washington, and Utah; critically acclaimed... | 1837 - 1903 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Mosler, Henry |
Henry Mosler’s highly detailed scenes of peasant life in
the rural villages of the French province of Brittany appealed to his
contemporary American viewers for their material specificity and universal
themes. Mosler was a native of Silesia, Germany (now
Poland), son of a German-Jewish lithographic artist
who brought his family to the United... | 1841 - 1920 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |