Artists

NameInfoYearsUpdated byDate
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
Butler, Howard Russell 1856 - 1934Anonymous05/18/2012
Breul, Hugo 1854 -  1910Anonymous05/18/2012
Blondel, Jacob D. 1817 - 1877Anonymous05/18/2012
Buttersworth, James E.notes
James Edward Buttersworth (1817–1894) was an English painter who specialized in maritime art, and is considered among the foremost American ship portraitists of the nineteenth century.[1] His paintings are particularly known for their meticulous detail, dramatic settings, and grace in movement. Early life and education Buttersworth was born in...
1817 - 1894Anonymous05/18/2012
Bufford, John Henrynotes
John Henry Bufford (1810-1870) was a lithographer in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. Biography Bufford trained "in the Pendleton shop in Boston from 1829 to 1831."[1] According to one historian, Bufford's work as a lithographer represented "a mediocre sort of craftmanship at best. ...He had no very special skills as [an] original artist and...
1810 -  1870Anonymous05/18/2012
Blackburn, Josephnotes
Nothing is known about English portrait painter Joseph Blackburn prior to his presence on Bermuda in 1752. During an extended stay on the island he painted about twenty-five portraits, including those of members of the Jones, Tucker and Harvey families. His compositions show that he was familiar with the work of the leading London portrait painters...
Died ca. 1778Anonymous05/18/2012
Brownell, Matilda Auchincloss 1871 - 1966Anonymous05/18/2012
Boetticher, Otto ca. 1816 - after 1864Anonymous05/18/2012
Bruce, Patrick Henrynotes
A pioneer in the development of abstract painting, Patrick Henry Bruce focused on the still life in his explorations of the boundary between representation and “pure” painting. Bruce was a descendent of American statesman Patrick Henry (1736–1799). He began his art studies at the Richmond Art School at the age of sixteen. In 1902 he moved to...
1881 - 1936Anonymous05/18/2012
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