Artists

Name
InfoYearsUpdated byDate
Bridport, Hughnotes
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. 1869Anonymous05/19/2012
Bristol, John Bunyannotes
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 - 1909Anonymous04/11/2012
Broadbent Jr., Samuel 1810 - 1880Anonymous05/18/2012
Bromley, Valentine Walternotes
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 -  1877Anonymous04/06/2012
Brook, Alexandernotes
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 - 1980Anonymous04/18/2013
Brooks, Alden Finneynotes
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 - 1932Anonymous04/18/2013
Brooks, Marianotes
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 - 1913Anonymous04/18/2013
Browere, Albertus Del Orientnotes
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 - 1887Anonymous05/18/2012
Browne, George Elmer 1871 - 1946Anonymous03/31/2012
Brownell, Matilda Auchincloss 1871 - 1966Anonymous05/18/2012
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