Artists

NameInfoYearsUpdated byDate
Benbridge, Henrynotes
Henry Benbridge born October 1743 [1] died February 1812), early American portrait painter, was born in Philadelphia, the only child of James and Mary (Clark) Benbridge. When he was seven years old, his mother, who had been left a widow, was married to Thomas Gordon, a wealthy Scot. The boy's artistic talent was encouraged. He made decorative...
1743 -  1812Anonymous07/28/2012
Bradford, Williamnotes
William Bradford, a 19th-century American marine painter, was born on April 30, 1823 in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.  He was born to Quaker parents who disapproved of his desire for a painting career.  He worked as a clerk in his father’s dry goods shop in New Bedford, devoting his spare time to sketching. In the early 1850s, he launched his...
1823 - 1892Anonymous06/11/2012
Binsse, Louis Francis DePaul 1774 - 1844Anonymous06/04/2012
Birch, William Russellnotes
William Russell Birch (1755-1834) has long been recognized as the first artist to achieve true commercial success in depicting American scenes for the domestic market. In his early career in London, Birch was influenced by the landscape painters whose work arose in the rich artistic ferment he encountered there in the 1770s and 1780s. After...
1755 - 1834Anonymous05/19/2012
Brown, William Mason 1828 - 1898Anonymous05/19/2012
Bridport, Hughnotes
Hugh Bridport, born in England in 1794, was a portrait painter, drawing instructor, architect, and engraver, who practiced lithography in Philadelphia 1828-1830s. Trained at the Royal Academy and with miniature painter Charles Wilkins, Bridport immigrated to Philadelphia with his artist brother George in 1816. Soon after their arrival, the brothers...
1794 - ca. 1869Anonymous05/19/2012
Buck, William Henry 1840 -  1888Anonymous05/18/2012
Bunce, William Gedney 1840 - 1916Anonymous05/18/2012
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
Bean, W. H. ca. 1830 - ca. 1900Anonymous05/18/2012
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