Artists

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Beckwith, James Carrollnotes
James Carroll Beckwith (September 23, 1852 – October 24, 1917) was an American landscape, portrait and genre painter whose Impressionist style led to his recognition in the late nineteenth century as a prominent figure in American art. Biography Carroll Beckwith, as he preferred to be known, was born in Hannibal, Missouri on 23 September 1852,...
1852 - 1917Anonymous01/02/2013
Benson, Frank Westonnotes
Frank Weston Benson, frequently referred to as Frank W. Benson, (March 24, 1862 – November 15, 1951) was an American artist from Salem, Massachusetts known for his Realistic portraits, American Impressionist paintings, watercolors and etchings. He began his career painting portraits of distinguished families and murals for the Library of...
1862 - 1951Anonymous12/28/2012
Benson, Eugene 1839 -  1908Anonymous12/28/2012
Bennett, William Jamesnotes
William Bennett was born in England. In 1799 the esteemed watercolor artist Richard Westall sponsored Bennett's entry into the Royal Academy of Art in London. Bennett showed an aptitude for landscape views, paying particular attention to topographical detail and the subtleties of light and atmosphere. Enrollment in the British forces in 1803 cut short...
1787 - 1844Anonymous12/28/2012
Bellows, Albert Fitchnotes
Albert Fitch Bellows (November 20, 1829 - November 24, 1883), American landscape painter of the Hudson River School, was born at Milford, Massachusetts. Early years He first studied architecture and opened his own architectural firm in 1849, but quickly turned to painting. From 1850 to 1856 he taught at the New England School of Design in Boston....
1829 - 1883Anonymous12/28/2012
Beers, Julie Hartnotes
Julie Hart Beers Kempson is regarded as among the best and perhaps the only woman artist of nineteenth-century America to specialize in landscapes. Biography Julie Hart Beers Kempson, a painter of the Hudson River School, was one of very few professional women landscape painters in nineteenth-century America and the only one to achieve any...
1835 - 1913Anonymous12/28/2012
Beckington, Alice 1868 - 1942Anonymous12/28/2012
Beauregard, Charles Grantnotes
Charles Grant Beauregard (* 1856 in Montreal , † 1919 in Troy) was an American painter. Life and Work Even as a young man wandered from Beauregard in the State of New York and lived there the majority of his life in Troy, where he worked as a teacher at the Emma Willard Private School. While he initially dealt with portraiture, he later turned to...
1856 - 1919Anonymous12/28/2012
Beard, William Holbrooknotes
William Holbrook Beard began his career as portrait painter. In 1856, he traveled to Italy, Germany, and Switzerland with fellow artists Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Worthington Whittredge. In 1858, Beard briefly settled in Buffalo, New York, helping to establish an art community that eventually culminated in the establishment of the Buffalo Fine...
1824 - 1900Anonymous12/28/2012
Beaman, Gamaliel Waldonotes
As a young man, Beaman had a studio on Tremont Street in Boston.  Although Beaman studied at the Lowell Institute and in Paris in the late 1870s, his preference was for a more rural lifestyle.  He moved to Northfield, Massachusetts where he lived with a hermit atop the mountain back of Northfield village.  In coming down to the village he passed...
1852 - 1937Anonymous12/28/2012
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