Artists
Name
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Bouguereau, Elizabeth Gardner | ![]()
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 - 1922 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Boughton, George Henry | ![]()
George
Henry Boughton (December 4, 1833 – January 19, 1905)[1] was an
Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.
Life and work
Boughton
was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The
family emigrated to the United States in 1835,[2] and he grew up in Albany, New
York where he started... | 1833 - 1905 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
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 |
Boggs, Frank | 1855 - 1926 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 | |
Bogert, George H. | 1864 - 1944 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
Bogardus, Margaret | 1804 - 1878 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 | |
Boetticher, Otto | ca. 1816 - after 1864 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
Boardman, William G. | ![]()
A member of
the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited from 1846 to 1871, Boardman
was labeled by the American Art Union Bulletin of 1848 as "very
clever." He was painting in
Jackson, NH, as early as 1847. He
was a friend of George Inness.
His White
Mountain paintings were done in the period 1848 to 1858. He painted both in the White... | 1815 - 1895 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Boardman, Rosina Cox | 1878 - 1970 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
Blythe, David Gilmour | ![]()
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 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |