Artists

George Henry Smillie (1840 - 1921), brother of artist James David Smillie, was a painter. He studied under his father, James Smillie, and under James McDougal Hart, and became a member of the National Academy of Design in 1882. Like his brother, he painted both in oils and in water colour. His favourite subjects were scenes along the New England...

Jerome Thompson's genre paintings on rustic themes, which were immensely popular in the late nineteenth century, have received new attention recently.  This revived interest focuses on the unusual distinction of Thompson's landscape settings, which often dominate the pictures' simple foreground scenes of rural work, play or dalliance.  Thompson's...

James David Smillie (January 16, 1833 - September 14, 1909), American artist, was born in New York City. His father, James Smillie (1807-1885), a Scottish engraver, emigrated to New York in 1829, was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1851, did much, with his brother William C. (1813-1908), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an...

Gottlieb Daniel Paul Weber (19 January 1823-12 October 1916) was a German artist. He was born in Darmstadt. He studied art in Frankfurt, and in 1848 came to the United States, settling in Philadelphia. In 1858 he went to Darmstadt, where he was appointed court painter. Among those of his works that are owned in the United States are “A Scene in...

William Sonntag was one of the central figures of the Hudson River School. Primarily self-taught, his early landscapes were executed during painting excursions from Cincinnati to the Ohio River Valley and in Kentucky and West Virginia (1856 and 1859). Born in East Liberty, Pennsylvania March 2, 1822, it is believed Sonntag studied for a short period...