Artists

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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
Bouguereau, Elizabeth Gardnernotes
Elizabeth Jane Gardner (October 4, 1837-January 28, 1922) was an American academic and salon painter, who was born in Exeter, New Hampshire. She was an American expatriate who died in Paris where she had lived most of her life. She studied in Paris under the figurative painter Hugues Merle (1823-1881), the well-known salon painter Jules Joseph...
1837 - 1922Anonymous05/18/2012
Buttersworth, James E.notes
James Edward Buttersworth (1817–1894) was an English painter who specialized in maritime art, and is considered among the foremost American ship portraitists of the nineteenth century.[1] His paintings are particularly known for their meticulous detail, dramatic settings, and grace in movement. Early life and education Buttersworth was born in...
1817 - 1894Anonymous05/18/2012
Bennett, William Jamesnotes
William Bennett was born in England. In 1799 the esteemed watercolor artist Richard Westall sponsored Bennett's entry into the Royal Academy of Art in London. Bennett showed an aptitude for landscape views, paying particular attention to topographical detail and the subtleties of light and atmosphere. Enrollment in the British forces in 1803 cut short...
1787 - 1844Anonymous12/28/2012
Bruce, Patrick Henrynotes
A pioneer in the development of abstract painting, Patrick Henry Bruce focused on the still life in his explorations of the boundary between representation and “pure” painting. Bruce was a descendent of American statesman Patrick Henry (1736–1799). He began his art studies at the Richmond Art School at the age of sixteen. In 1902 he moved to...
1881 - 1936Anonymous05/18/2012
Blythe, David Gilmournotes
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 - 1865Anonymous05/18/2012
Bard, Jamesnotes
James Bard was a marine artist of the 19th century. He is known for his paintings of watercraft, particularly of steamboats. His works are sometimes characterized as naïve art. Although Bard died poor and almost forgotten, his works have since become valuable. Bard had a twin brother, John (1815–1856) and they collaborated on earlier...
1815 - 1897Anonymous12/28/2012
Bingham, George Calebnotes
George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) was an American artist whose paintings of American life in the frontier lands along the Missouri River exemplify the Luminist style. Left to languish in obscurity, Bingham's work was rediscovered in the 1930s. He is now widely considered one of the greatest American painters of the 19th...
1811 - 1879Anonymous10/13/2012
Bridgman, Frederick Arthurnotes
Frederick Arthur Bridgman (November 10, 1847 – January 13, 1928) was an American artist known for his paintings of "Orientalist" subjects. Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, he was the son of a physician. He began as a draughtsman in New York City, for the American Bank Note Company in 1864–1865, and studied art in the same years at the Brooklyn Art...
1847 - 1928Anonymous04/09/2012
Birch, Thomasnotes
Thomas Birch, American portrait and marine painter; born in London, England, in 1779; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1851. He came to the U. S. in 1794, and assisted his artist father, William Birch, in preparing a 29-plate collection of engravings: "Birch's Views of Philadelphia" (1799).[1] Subscribers to the series...
1779 - 1851Anonymous04/05/2012
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