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
Babcock, William P. 1826 - 1899Anonymous04/15/2012
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
Brown, William Mason 1828 - 1898Anonymous05/19/2012
Bannister, Edward M.notes
Edward Mitchell Bannister (ca. 1828 – January 9, 1901) was a Black Canadian painter whose tonalism and predominantly pastoral subject matter owed much to his admiration for Millet and the French Barbizon School. Biography Bannister was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick and moved to New England in the late 1840s, where he remained for the rest of...
1828 - 1901Anonymous12/27/2012
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
Bierstadt, Albertnotes
Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter...
1830 - 1902Anonymous01/02/2013
Brown, John Georgenotes
Born in Durham in northern England, John George Brown studied art while training as a glass-cutter in Newcastle-upon-Tyne; he continued his studies at the Edinburgh Royal Academy. After a short stay in London, Brown emigrated to the United States in 1853, studied at the National Academy of Design, and opened a portrait studio in Brooklyn, New York....
1831 - 1913Anonymous04/03/2012
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
Boughton, George Henrynotes
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 - 1905Anonymous04/09/2012
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