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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Badger, Joseph | ![]()
Joseph Badger (ca.1707–1765) was a portrait artist in Boston, Massachusetts in the 18th-century. He painted some 80 portraits of merchants, businessmen, clergy, and other notables, and their wives and children.
Biography
Badger was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, to tailor Stephen Badger and Mercy Kettell. In 1731 he married Katharine Felch;... | 1707 - 1765 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
Blackburn, Joseph | ![]()
Nothing is
known about English portrait painter Joseph Blackburn prior to his presence on
Bermuda in 1752. During an extended stay on the island he painted about
twenty-five portraits, including those of members of the Jones, Tucker and
Harvey families. His compositions show that he was familiar with the work of
the leading London portrait painters... | Died ca. 1778 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
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 |