Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Brown, John George |
Born in
Durham in northern England, John George Brown studied art while training as a
glass-cutter in Newcastle-upon-Tyne; he continued his studies at the Edinburgh
Royal Academy. After a short stay in London, Brown emigrated
to the United States in 1853, studied at the National Academy of Design, and
opened a portrait studio in Brooklyn, New York.... | 1831 - 1913 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
| 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 |
| Brown, George Loring |
George Loring Brown (1814-1889) was an American landscape painter. He was born in Boston and first studied wood engraving under Alonzo Hartwell and worked as an illustrator. He studied painting with Washington Allston, but soon went to Europe, residing principally in Italy for years. The motives of his pictures are usually Italian, and there is... | 1814 - 1889 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Brownell, Matilda Auchincloss | 1871 - 1966 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Browne, George Elmer | 1871 - 1946 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
| 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 |
| Brooks, Maria | Known for her oil portraits, landscapes, genre, and flower paintings, Maria Brooks studied at the South Kensington and Royal Academy Schools in London. She opened a studio in the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, in 1881, and was known to be working in Quebec City in 1886. Sometime after this, she left Canada for the United States, painting in New York in 1889... | 1837 - 1913 | Anonymous | 04/18/2013 |
| Brooks, Alden Finney | Alden Finney Brooks was born April 3, 1840, in Williamsfield, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, of Charles and Isabel [Thompson] Brooks. He received an academic education in J L. Pickard's institution at Platteville, Wis., from 1857 to 1859.
Being in poor health he made the journey to Eureka, Cal., on foot in 1859. In 1861 he returned home and enlisted early in... | 1840 - 1932 | Anonymous | 04/18/2013 |
| Brook, Alexander | Alexander Brook, a leader among New York City's mainstream figurative painters during the 1930s, painted numerous scenes based on his observations in Savannah. Trained in the American realist tradition of painting, Brook's landscapes, portraits, and genre scenes are largely devoid of overt or hidden social meaning and are characterized by subdued... | 1898 - 1980 | Anonymous | 04/18/2013 |
