Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carpenter, Francis B. | 
Francis
Bicknell Carpenter (August 6, 1830 – May 23, 1900) was an American
painter born in Homer, New York. Carpenter is best known for his painting First
Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln, which is hanging
in the United States Capitol. Carpenter resided with President Lincoln at the
White House and in 1866 published... | 1830 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Huntington, Daniel |
Daniel
Huntington (October 4, 1816 – April 19, 1906), American artist, was born
in New York City, New York, the son of Benjamin Huntington, Jr. and Faith
Trumbull Huntington; his paternal grandfather was Benjamin Huntington, delegate
at the Second Continental Congress and First U.S. Representative from
Connecticut. From 1833 to 1835 he studied at... | 1816 - 1906 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Johnson, David |
David
Johnson (May 10, 1827 – January 30, 1908) was a member of the second
generation of Hudson River School painters.
He was born
in New York City, New York. He studied for two years at the antique school of
the National Academy of Design. He also studied briefly with the Hudson River
artist Jasper Francis Cropsey. Along with John Frederick... | 1827 - 1908 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Sully, Thomas |
Thomas
Sully (June 19, 1783 – November 5, 1872) was a well-known American
(English-born) painter, mostly of portraits.
Life and career
Early life
Sully was born
in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, to the actors
Matthew and Sarah Sully. In March 1792 the Sullys and
their nine children immigrated to Richmond, Virginia, where Thomas’s
uncle... | 1783 - 1872 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
| Bradford, William |
William
Bradford, a 19th-century American marine painter, was born on April 30, 1823 in
Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He was
born to Quaker parents who disapproved of his desire for a painting career. He worked as a clerk in his
father’s dry goods shop in New Bedford, devoting his spare time to
sketching.
In the
early 1850s, he launched his... | 1823 - 1892 | Anonymous | 06/11/2012 |
| Fuller, George |
George
Fuller (January 17, 1822 – March 21, 1884) was an American figure and portrait
painter.
Fuller was
born in Deerfield, Massachusetts. His father, Aaron Fuller, was a farmer. His
mother was Aaron's second wife, Fanny Negus of Petersham, Massachusetts. His
parents were not in favor of Fuller becoming a painter. At age thirteen, he
went to... | 1822 - 1884 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Peto, John Frederick |
John
Frederick Peto (May 21, 1854 – November 23, 1907) was an American trompe
l'oeil ("fool the eye") painter who was long forgotten until his
paintings were rediscovered along with those of fellow trompe l'oeil artist
William Harnett. Although Peto and the slightly older Harnett knew each other
and painted similar subjects, their careers... | 1854 - 1907 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Tarbell, Edmund Charles |
Edmund
Charles Tarbell (April 26, 1862 – August 1, 1938) was an American
Impressionist painter. He was a member of the Ten American Painters. His work
is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery and the
National Academy of Design, among others.
Early life and education
Edmund
Charles Tarbell, called "Ned" as a boy, was... | 1862 - 1938 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Boughton, George Henry |
George
Henry Boughton (December 4, 1833 – January 19, 1905)[1] was an
Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.
Life and work
Boughton
was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The
family emigrated to the United States in 1835,[2] and he grew up in Albany, New
York where he started... | 1833 - 1905 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
| Bricher, Alfred Thompson |
A
specialist in marine and coastal paintings, Alfred Thompson Bricher
was celebrated for his precise depictions of waves breaking at the shoreline. Bricher was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and grew up
in Newburyport, on the Massachusetts coast. He worked as a clerk in a dry-goods
store in Boston while painting in his spare time. Bricher
may... | 1837 - 1908 | Anonymous | 11/17/2012 |
