Artists
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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 |
Bunner, Andrew Fisher | 1841 - 1897 | Anonymous | 04/13/2012 | |
Brumidi, Constantino | ![]()
Constantino
Brumidi (July 26, 1805 – February 19, 1880) was an Greek/Italian-American
historical painter, best known and honored for his fresco work in the Capitol
Building in Washington, DC.
Parentage and early life
Brumidi was
born in Rome, his father a Greek and his mother an Italian. He showed his
talent for fresco painting at an early age... | 1805 - 1880 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
Burton, Charles | Died 1842 | Anonymous | 05/14/2012 | |
Beauregard, Charles Grant | ![]()
Charles Grant Beauregard (* 1856 in Montreal , † 1919 in Troy) was an American painter.
Life and Work
Even as a young man wandered from Beauregard in the State of New York and lived there the majority of his life in Troy, where he worked as a teacher at the Emma Willard Private School.
While he initially dealt with portraiture, he later turned to... | 1856 - 1919 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
Benson, Eugene | 1839 - 1908 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 | |
Bott, Emil | ![]()
Emil Bott was one of Pittsburgh's principal artists of the mid-1800's. He was born in Wurtenburg,
Germany and brought to America by his father Adolf Bott;
they arrived as part of an aristocratic religious cult organized by a certain
Count De Leon. The younger Bott lived in Phillipsburg
and went to school there until he returned to Dusseldorf,... | 1824 - 1908 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Baker Jr., George A. | 1821 - 1880 | Anonymous | 05/02/2012 | |
Bacon, Henry | ![]()
Henry Bacon (1839 in Haverhill, Massachusetts – 13 March 1912 in Cairo[1]) was an American painter and author.
Henry A. Bacon was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1839. During the American Civil War, he enlisted in the Union Army on 16 July 1861[2] and acted as a field artist for Frank Leslie's Weekly while he served as a soldier within the 13th... | 1839 - 1912 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
Bebie, Henry | 1824 - 1888 | Anonymous | 01/05/2013 |