Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benbridge, Henry | 
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 - 1812 | Anonymous | 07/28/2012 |
| Bradford, William |
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 - 1892 | Anonymous | 06/11/2012 |
| Binsse, Louis Francis DePaul | 1774 - 1844 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 | |
| Birch, William Russell |
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 - 1834 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Brown, William Mason | 1828 - 1898 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| Bridport, Hugh |
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. 1869 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Buck, William Henry | 1840 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Bunce, William Gedney | 1840 - 1916 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Boardman, William G. |
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 - 1895 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Bean, W. H. | ca. 1830 - ca. 1900 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
