Artists

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...

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...

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...

Julie Hart Beers Kempson is regarded as among the best and perhaps the only woman artist of nineteenth-century America to specialize in landscapes. Biography Julie Hart Beers Kempson, a painter of the Hudson River School, was one of very few professional women landscape painters in nineteenth-century America and the only one to achieve any...

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...