Artists
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White, Edwin |
Edwin White
(born, South Hadley, Massachusetts 1817; died Saratoga Springs, New York 1877)
was an American painter who studied in Paris, Rome, and Florence and later
taught at the National Academy of Design, in New York.
Works by
White, mostly in storage, are in the collections of Yale; The Metropolitan
Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;... | 1817 - 1877 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
English, Frank F. |
Frank F.
English (1854 - 1922)
Frank F.
English was born in Indiana in 1854. In the early 1880s, he studied for five
years in the evening classes of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His
instructors included Thomas Eakins, James P. Kelly and Thomas Anshutz.
However,
English's reputation primarily rests with his outstanding facility as... | 1854 - 1922 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Guy, Francis |
(b Burton in Kendall or Lorton, Cumbria,
1760; d Brooklyn, NY, 12 Aug 1820). American painter of
English birth. In England he was apprenticed to a tailor and then worked
in the textile trade. A business failure prompted him to leave London for New
York in 1795. By early 1798 he was settled in Baltimore, MD, where he lived for
the next 20 years.... | 1760 - 1820 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
Remington, Frederic |
Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 – December 26,
1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who
specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating
on the last quarter of the 19th century American West and images of cowboys,
American Indians, and the U. S. Cavalry.
Early... | 1861 - 1909 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Richardt, Ferdinand |
Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (10 April 1819 - 29
October 1895) Danish-American artist, in Denmark known for his lithographs of
manor houses, and in the U.S. for his paintings of Niagara Falls and other
landscapes.
Life
Ferdinand Richardt, the son of Johan Joachim Richardt
and Johanne Frederikke
née Bohse, was born in Brede, north of
Copenhagen in... | 1819 - 1895 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
Waller, Frank |
A
little-known artist of the 19th century, Frank Waller was born June 12, 1842 in
New York City. He was a painter, educator, and etcher who lived in Morristown,
New Jersey during the latter part of his life.
At 15 years
of age, Waller studied drawing at the Free Academy of the City of New York, now
known as the City College of New York, which he... | 1842 - 1923 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Frost, George Albert |
George
Albert Frost (December 23, 1843 – November 13, 1907) was an American
artist of the 19th century. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and had a
studio in North Cambridge, Massachusetts for several years. He studied under
Nicolas de Keyser at the Academy Royale de Belgique
in Antwerp.[1] His paintings were mostly landscapes,
and he is... | 1843 - 1907 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Cooke, George |
George
Cooke (1793–1849) was an itinerant United States painter who specialized
in portrait and landscape paintings and was one of the South's best known
painters of the mid nineteenth century.[1] His primary
patron was the industrialist Daniel Pratt, who built a gallery in Prattville,
Alabama solely to house Cooke's paintings.[1]
Early career... | 1793 - 1849 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Cushman, George Hewitt |
George
Hewitt Cushman (June 5, 1814 in Windham, Connecticut-August 3, 1876 in Jersey
City Heights, New Jersey), a top American engraver and painter of miniature
paintings and portraits of his time (second only to Edward Greene Malbone), turned early to these professions after family
financial misfortunes prevented him from entering West Point and... | 1814 - 1876 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Hall, George Henry |
George
Henry Hall was American painter of Academic Realism and Hudson River Style.
George
Henry Hall was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. His father moved the family
to Boston when George was four years old.
George
Henry Hall began his career as an artist at the age of 16. In 1849 he traveled
with his friend Eastman Johnson to Düsseldorf,... | 1825 - 1913 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |