Artists
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Butler, Theodore | ![]()
Theodore
Earl Butler, (1861–1936) an American impressionist painter, he was born
in Columbus, Ohio and died in Giverny, France, May 2,
1936.
Biography
Theodore
studied at Marietta College in Ohio and graduated in 1882. He studied at the
Art Students League with James Carroll Beckwith, Kenyon Cox and J. Alden Weir, and under William Merritt... | 1861 - 1936 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Bannister, Edward M. | ![]()
Edward Mitchell Bannister (ca. 1828 – January 9, 1901) was a Black Canadian painter whose tonalism and predominantly pastoral subject matter owed much to his admiration for Millet and the French Barbizon School.
Biography
Bannister was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick and moved to New England in the late 1840s, where he remained for the rest of... | 1828 - 1901 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
Beckwith, James Carroll | ![]()
James
Carroll Beckwith (September 23, 1852 – October 24, 1917) was an American
landscape, portrait and genre painter whose Impressionist style led to his
recognition in the late nineteenth century as a prominent figure in American
art.
Biography
Carroll
Beckwith, as he preferred to be known, was born in Hannibal, Missouri on 23 September
1852,... | 1852 - 1917 | Anonymous | 01/02/2013 |
Bachelder, John Badger | ![]()
John Badger
Bachelder (September 29, 1825 – December 22,
1894) was a portrait and landscape painter, lithographer, and photographer, but
best known as the preeminent 19th century historian of the Battle of Gettysburg
in the American Civil War. He was a dominant factor in the preservation and memorialization of the Gettysburg Battlefield in the... | 1825 - 1894 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
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 |
Boutelle, DeWitt Clinton | ![]()
DeWitt
Clinton Boutelle was born on April 6, 1820 in Troy,
New York. He was a self-educated artist but began painting “under the
influence of Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand at an early age.”(1) Both
men who influenced him were well known Hudson River School members. Boutelle
created a mix of portrait and landscape paintings during his career.... | 1820 - 1884 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
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 |
Beaman, Gamaliel Waldo | ![]()
As a young man, Beaman had a studio on Tremont Street in Boston. Although Beaman studied at the Lowell Institute and in Paris in the late 1870s, his preference was for a more rural lifestyle. He moved to Northfield, Massachusetts where he lived with a hermit atop the mountain back of Northfield village. In coming down to the village he passed... | 1852 - 1937 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
Brown, Harrison Bird | ![]()
Harrison
Bird Brown began his career as a modest beginning as a sign painter. He later
turned to painting and established himself as one of the most celebrated
landscape painters in Maine during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Brown spent the greatest portion of his life in Maine, and his works often
depicted the wholesome outdoor... | 1831 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Bristol, John Bunyan | ![]()
John Bunyan
Bristol was born in Hillsdale, New York, a small town east of Hudson, New York
near the Massachusetts border. Although largely self-taught, Bristol is known
to have studied briefly with early Hudson River painter Henry Ary, who is also thought to have given instruction to
Bristol’s great contemporary, Sanford Robinson Gifford.... | 1826 - 1909 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |