Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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| Blashfield, Edwin Howland | 
Edwin Howland Blashfield (December 5, 1848 – October 12, 1936), an American artist, was born in New York City.
He was a pupil of Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat in Paris beginning in 1867, and became (1888) a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. For some years a genre painter, he later turned to decorative work, where his academic... | 1848 - 1936 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Bunker, Dennis Miller |
Dennis
Miller Bunker (November 6, 1861 – December 28, 1890) was an American
painter and innovator of American Impressionism. His mature works include both
brightly colored landscape paintings and dark, finely drawn portraits and
figures. One of the major American painters of the late 19th century,[1] and a friend of many prominent artists of the... | 1861 - 1890 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Blythe, David Gilmour |
David
Gilmour Blythe (May 9, 1815 – May 15, 1865) was a self-taught American
artist best known for paintings which satirically portrayed political and
social situations.
Early years
Blythe was
born in East Liverpool, Ohio on May 9, 1815 to poor parents of Scottish and
Irish ancestry. After a childhood in a log cabin by the Ohio River, at the... | 1815 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Browere, Albertus Del Orient |
Albertus,
born in Tarrytown, New York in 1814, was the son of a sculptor, John Henri
Isaac Browere (1790-1834), famous for his plaster
life masks of Thomas Jefferson, Gilbert Stuart, and others. Washington
Irving’s History of New York inspired Albertus
to depict Peter Stuyvesant’s Arrival at Hartford (1833), Recruiting Peter
Stuyvesant’s Army... | 1814 - 1887 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Burton, Charles | Died 1842 | Anonymous | 05/14/2012 | |
| Burroughs, Bryson | 1869 - 1934 | Anonymous | 05/14/2012 | |
| Baker Jr., George A. | 1821 - 1880 | Anonymous | 05/02/2012 | |
| Brown, John Henry |
John Henry
Brown
(Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, 1818-1891, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Brown's
prolific career illuminates the fate of antebellum miniaturists. He began an
apprenticeship in 1836 to the painter Arthur Armstrong (1798-1851) while
working as a clerk in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Recorder's Office. In 1839
Brown established himself as a... | 1818 - 1891 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Butman, Frederick A. |
Frederick
A. Butman was born in Gardiner, Maine in 1820 and
also died there in 1871 while visiting his family. He was a landscape and figure painter
active from 1857 until his death.
He was listed in the San Francisco city directory from 1859 to 1871.
Butman
owned a drugstore in Gardiner until 1857 when he moved to San Francisco. From 1860... | 1820 - 1871 | Anonymous | 04/19/2012 |
| Babcock, William P. | 1826 - 1899 | Anonymous | 04/15/2012 |
