Artists

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Bachelder, John Badgernotes
John Badger Bachelder (September 29, 1825 – December 22, 1894) was a portrait and landscape painter, lithographer, and photographer, but best known as the preeminent 19th century historian of the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. He was a dominant factor in the preservation and memorialization of the Gettysburg Battlefield in the...
1825 - 1894Anonymous12/28/2012
Browere, Albertus Del Orientnotes
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 - 1887Anonymous05/18/2012
Boutelle, DeWitt Clintonnotes
DeWitt Clinton Boutelle was born on April 6, 1820 in Troy, New York. He was a self-educated artist but began painting “under the influence of Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand at an early age.”(1) Both men who influenced him were well known Hudson River School members. Boutelle created a mix of portrait and landscape paintings during his career....
1820 - 1884Anonymous04/11/2012
Butman, Frederick A.notes
Frederick A. Butman was born in Gardiner, Maine in 1820 and also died there in 1871 while visiting his family.  He was a landscape and figure painter active from 1857 until his death.  He was listed in the San Francisco city directory from 1859 to 1871. Butman owned a drugstore in Gardiner until 1857 when he moved to San Francisco.  From 1860...
1820 - 1871Anonymous04/19/2012
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
Brown, Harrison Birdnotes
Harrison Bird Brown began his career as a modest beginning as a sign painter. He later turned to painting and established himself as one of the most celebrated landscape painters in Maine during the second half of the nineteenth century. Brown spent the greatest portion of his life in Maine, and his works often depicted the wholesome outdoor...
1831 - 1915Anonymous05/18/2012
Bristol, John Bunyannotes
John Bunyan Bristol was born in Hillsdale, New York, a small town east of Hudson, New York near the Massachusetts border. Although largely self-taught, Bristol is known to have studied briefly with early Hudson River painter Henry Ary, who is also thought to have given instruction to Bristol’s great contemporary, Sanford Robinson Gifford....
1826 - 1909Anonymous04/11/2012
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
Baker, William Blissnotes
William Bliss Baker (October or November 1859[3] – November 20, 1886)[1][4] was an American artist born in New York City[2] who was just beginning to hit his stride as a landscape painter in the Realism movement[5] when he died at his father's house at Hoosick Falls, New York at about the age of 27[n 1] due to a back injury received while ice...
1859 - 1886Anonymous12/28/2012
Boardman, William G.notes
A member of the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited from 1846 to 1871, Boardman was labeled by the American Art Union Bulletin of 1848 as "very clever."  He was painting in Jackson, NH, as early as 1847.  He was a friend of George Inness. His White Mountain paintings were done in the period 1848 to 1858.  He painted both in the White...
1815 - 1895Anonymous05/18/2012
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