Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackburn, Joseph | 
Nothing is
known about English portrait painter Joseph Blackburn prior to his presence on
Bermuda in 1752. During an extended stay on the island he painted about
twenty-five portraits, including those of members of the Jones, Tucker and
Harvey families. His compositions show that he was familiar with the work of
the leading London portrait painters... | Died ca. 1778 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Carlin, John |
The success of Carlin’s colorful and detailed
portraits allowed him to campaign successfully for the advanced education of
deaf people in the United States.
Biography
Painter and
writer John Carlin, who was profoundly deaf from early infancy, was a
ground-breaking advocate for the advancement of deaf and mute people in
America. Born in the... | 1813 - 1891 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Durand, John |
John Durand's birth and death dates are unknown, and only a few of his portraits are signed and dated. The sketchy chronology of his life is based on these few signed works, as well as on account book entries and information about his sitters. Scholars place his first activity in Virginia in 1765, but by 1766 Durand was in New York City. In that year... | 1731 - 1805 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 |
| Freeman, James Edward |
James
Edward Freeman (1808–November 21, 1884) was an American painter,
diplomat, and author. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York
City and in Rome, Italy. He expatriated to Rome in 1841 when he was appointed
U.S. Consul to Ancona, in the Papal States.
Early life and career in
America
Freeman was
born on Indian Island, in New... | 1808 - 1884 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Saintin, Jules Emile |
Jules Émile Saintin (1829-1894)
was born in Lemée (Aisne), France on October
14, 1829 and died in Paris on July 14, 1894. He is considered a portrait,
historical and genre painter from the academic French school. He received his
formal art education in 1845 at the Ecole des
Beaux-arts under Michel-Martin Drolling (1786-1851), Achille-Jean-... | 1829 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Green, James |
GREEN,
JAMES (1771-1834), portrait-painter, born at Leytonstone in Essex, 13 March
1771, was son of a builder. He was apprenticed to Thomas Martyn,
a draughtsman of natural history, who resided at 10 Great Marlborough Street.
Here Green remained several years, and showed great talent in the imitation of
shells and insects. Having higher aims in... | 1771 - 1834 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
| Hamilton, James |
Esteemed by
his peers as "our ablest marine painter," James Hamilton won fame as
an artist who, "in his best works, exhibited the higher mental powers of
the poet, as well as rare technical skill." Born in Entrien, near Belfast,
Ireland, Hamilton emigrated with his family to the
United States in 1834, settling in Philadelphia. He exhibited his... | 1819 - 1878 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Brown, John Henry |
John Henry
Brown
(Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, 1818-1891, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Brown's
prolific career illuminates the fate of antebellum miniaturists. He began an
apprenticeship in 1836 to the painter Arthur Armstrong (1798-1851) while
working as a clerk in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Recorder's Office. In 1839
Brown established himself as a... | 1818 - 1891 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Bufford, John Henry |
John Henry Bufford (1810-1870) was a lithographer in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts.
Biography
Bufford trained "in the Pendleton shop in Boston from 1829 to 1831."[1] According to one historian, Bufford's work as a lithographer represented "a mediocre sort of craftmanship at best. ...He had no very special skills as [an] original artist and... | 1810 - 1870 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Hidley, Joseph H. |
Joseph
Henry Hidley was born 23 March 1830 in Greenbush, the
part that later became North Greenbush, Rensselaer County, NY. He was baptised 11 July 1830 at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
in the village of West Sand Lake, in the town of Sand
Lake, Rensselaer County. Joseph's family had close ties to this church through
several generations.
His... | 1830 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
