Artists
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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 |
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 |
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 |
Bunner, Andrew Fisher | 1841 - 1897 | Anonymous | 04/13/2012 | |
Babcock, William P. | 1826 - 1899 | Anonymous | 04/15/2012 | |
Butman, Frederick A. | ![]()
Frederick
A. Butman was born in Gardiner, Maine in 1820 and
also died there in 1871 while visiting his family. He was a landscape and figure painter
active from 1857 until his death.
He was listed in the San Francisco city directory from 1859 to 1871.
Butman
owned a drugstore in Gardiner until 1857 when he moved to San Francisco. From 1860... | 1820 - 1871 | Anonymous | 04/19/2012 |
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 |
Baker Jr., George A. | 1821 - 1880 | Anonymous | 05/02/2012 | |
Burroughs, Bryson | 1869 - 1934 | Anonymous | 05/14/2012 | |
Burton, Charles | Died 1842 | Anonymous | 05/14/2012 |