Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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| Browere, Albertus Del Orient | 
Albertus,
born in Tarrytown, New York in 1814, was the son of a sculptor, John Henri
Isaac Browere (1790-1834), famous for his plaster
life masks of Thomas Jefferson, Gilbert Stuart, and others. Washington
Irving’s History of New York inspired Albertus
to depict Peter Stuyvesant’s Arrival at Hartford (1833), Recruiting Peter
Stuyvesant’s Army... | 1814 - 1887 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Blythe, David Gilmour |
David
Gilmour Blythe (May 9, 1815 – May 15, 1865) was a self-taught American
artist best known for paintings which satirically portrayed political and
social situations.
Early years
Blythe was
born in East Liverpool, Ohio on May 9, 1815 to poor parents of Scottish and
Irish ancestry. After a childhood in a log cabin by the Ohio River, at the... | 1815 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Bunker, Dennis Miller |
Dennis
Miller Bunker (November 6, 1861 – December 28, 1890) was an American
painter and innovator of American Impressionism. His mature works include both
brightly colored landscape paintings and dark, finely drawn portraits and
figures. One of the major American painters of the late 19th century,[1] and a friend of many prominent artists of the... | 1861 - 1890 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Blashfield, Edwin Howland |
Edwin Howland Blashfield (December 5, 1848 – October 12, 1936), an American artist, was born in New York City.
He was a pupil of Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat in Paris beginning in 1867, and became (1888) a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. For some years a genre painter, he later turned to decorative work, where his academic... | 1848 - 1936 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Bouguereau, Elizabeth Gardner |
Elizabeth Jane Gardner (October 4, 1837-January 28, 1922) was an American academic and salon painter, who was born in Exeter, New Hampshire. She was an American expatriate who died in Paris where she had lived most of her life. She studied in Paris under the figurative painter Hugues Merle (1823-1881), the well-known salon painter Jules Joseph... | 1837 - 1922 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Bott, Emil |
Emil Bott was one of Pittsburgh's principal artists of the mid-1800's. He was born in Wurtenburg,
Germany and brought to America by his father Adolf Bott;
they arrived as part of an aristocratic religious cult organized by a certain
Count De Leon. The younger Bott lived in Phillipsburg
and went to school there until he returned to Dusseldorf,... | 1824 - 1908 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Brush, George de Forest | 1855 - 1941 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Burr, George Elbert |
George
Elbert Burr (1859–1939) was an American printmaker and painter best known
for his etchings and drypoints of the desert and mountain regions of the
American West.
Burr was
born in 1859 in Monroe Falls, Ohio. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago
for one winter, his only formal artistic training. Nevertheless, he enjoyed
early success... | 1859 - 1939 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Bogert, George H. | 1864 - 1944 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Brown, George Loring |
George Loring Brown (1814-1889) was an American landscape painter. He was born in Boston and first studied wood engraving under Alonzo Hartwell and worked as an illustrator. He studied painting with Washington Allston, but soon went to Europe, residing principally in Italy for years. The motives of his pictures are usually Italian, and there is... | 1814 - 1889 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
