Artists

Samuel Woodson Price (August 5, 1828 – January 22, 1918) was a portrait artist, Union general in the American Civil War, and author. Early life Price was born near Nicholasville, Kentucky to Daniel Branch and Elizabeth (Crockett) Price. He began to show great aptitude for art at an early age, having set up a studio in a Nicholasville hotel by...

Gimbrede was born in Agen, France in 1781 but emigrated to America, where he worked in New York and Baltimore as an engraver and miniature painter, before taking up a position as teacher of drawing and of French at the West Point Military Academy, where he died 24 Dec 1832. Judging by the comments on his grave at West Point, where it is recorded...

Thomas Seir Cummings (1804-94) was an American miniature painter and author, born at Bath, England. He came to New York early in life and studied there with Henry Inman. He painted miniatures in water color, and many of his sitters were well-known contemporaries of the artist. In 1826 he helped to found the National Academy of Design, was its...

Virgil Macey Williams was born in Dixfield, Maine on October 29, 1830. He was raised in Taunton, Massachusetts and, after studying at Brown University, began his art training in New York City under Daniel Huntington. During 1853-60 he studied in Rome with renowned New York painter William Page and became a close friend of Page after marrying his...

Frerichs was born in Ghent Belgium, the son of William Daniel, a general in the Dutch Army.  His name at birth was Wilhelm Karel Anthonius Frerichs.  He was educated in Belgium, having studied medicine at the University of Leyden and art at the Royal Academies in The Hague and Brussels.  When he was only 18 years old, he completed a 12 x 17 foot...