Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Beers, Julie Hart |
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... | 1835 - 1913 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
| 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 |
| Bush, Norton |
Norton Bush
was first noted for his portraits, marine views and landscapes of the East
Coast and California. Later in his career, after visiting Central and South
America, Bush devoted himself to his favorite topic, painting tropical scenery.
Norton Bush was born in Rochester, New
York, Feb.22, 1834. He first studied art in his native city under... | 1834 - 1894 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
| 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 |
| Brown, Harrison Bird |
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... | 1831 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Brown, John George |
Born in
Durham in northern England, John George Brown studied art while training as a
glass-cutter in Newcastle-upon-Tyne; he continued his studies at the Edinburgh
Royal Academy. After a short stay in London, Brown emigrated
to the United States in 1853, studied at the National Academy of Design, and
opened a portrait studio in Brooklyn, New York.... | 1831 - 1913 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
| Bierstadt, Albert |
Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter... | 1830 - 1902 | Anonymous | 01/02/2013 |
| Bellows, Albert Fitch |
Albert
Fitch Bellows (November 20, 1829 - November 24, 1883), American landscape
painter of the Hudson River School, was born at Milford, Massachusetts.
Early years
He first
studied architecture and opened his own architectural firm in 1849, but quickly
turned to painting. From 1850 to 1856 he taught at the New England School of
Design in Boston.... | 1829 - 1883 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
| Bannister, Edward M. |
Edward Mitchell Bannister (ca. 1828 – January 9, 1901) was a Black Canadian painter whose tonalism and predominantly pastoral subject matter owed much to his admiration for Millet and the French Barbizon School.
Biography
Bannister was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick and moved to New England in the late 1840s, where he remained for the rest of... | 1828 - 1901 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
