Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bromley, Valentine Walter | 
BROMLEY,
VALENTINE WALTER (1848-1877), painter, great-grandson of William Bromley
(1769-1842) [q. v.], was born in London on 14 Feb. 1848. From his childhood he
manifested a remarkable faculty for art, both as an original designer and as a
depicter of nature. He was especially remarkable for invention and swiftness of
execution. He contributed... | 1848 - 1877 | Anonymous | 04/06/2012 |
| Broadbent Jr., Samuel | 1810 - 1880 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Bridgman, Frederick Arthur |
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 - 1928 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
| Bridges, Fidelia |
Fidelia
Bridges (May 19, either 1834 or 1835–1923) was one of the minute population of successful female artists in the 19th century
and early 20th century. She painted small aspects of nature: flowers, birds,
and other plants in their natural settings. She first was an oil painter and
later took up watercolor painting. She was known for her... | 1834 - 1923 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
| Bricher, Alfred Thompson |
A
specialist in marine and coastal paintings, Alfred Thompson Bricher
was celebrated for his precise depictions of waves breaking at the shoreline. Bricher was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and grew up
in Newburyport, on the Massachusetts coast. He worked as a clerk in a dry-goods
store in Boston while painting in his spare time. Bricher
may... | 1837 - 1908 | Anonymous | 11/17/2012 |
| Breul, Hugo | 1854 - 1910 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Bradford, William |
William
Bradford, a 19th-century American marine painter, was born on April 30, 1823 in
Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He was
born to Quaker parents who disapproved of his desire for a painting career. He worked as a clerk in his
father’s dry goods shop in New Bedford, devoting his spare time to
sketching.
In the
early 1850s, he launched his... | 1823 - 1892 | Anonymous | 06/11/2012 |
| 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 |
