Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown, William Mason | 1828 - 1898 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| 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 |
| Babcock, William P. | 1826 - 1899 | Anonymous | 04/15/2012 | |
| Bachelder, John Badger |
John Badger
Bachelder (September 29, 1825 – December 22,
1894) was a portrait and landscape painter, lithographer, and photographer, but
best known as the preeminent 19th century historian of the Battle of Gettysburg
in the American Civil War. He was a dominant factor in the preservation and memorialization of the Gettysburg Battlefield in the... | 1825 - 1894 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
| 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 |
| Bebie, Henry | 1824 - 1888 | Anonymous | 01/05/2013 | |
| Beard, William Holbrook |
William
Holbrook Beard began his career as portrait painter. In 1856, he traveled to
Italy, Germany, and Switzerland with fellow artists Albert Bierstadt and Thomas
Worthington Whittredge. In 1858, Beard briefly
settled in Buffalo, New York, helping to establish an art community that
eventually culminated in the establishment of the Buffalo Fine... | 1824 - 1900 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
| Bradford, William |
William
Bradford, a 19th-century American marine painter, was born on April 30, 1823 in
Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He was
born to Quaker parents who disapproved of his desire for a painting career. He worked as a clerk in his
father’s dry goods shop in New Bedford, devoting his spare time to
sketching.
In the
early 1850s, he launched his... | 1823 - 1892 | Anonymous | 06/11/2012 |
| Baker Jr., George A. | 1821 - 1880 | Anonymous | 05/02/2012 | |
| 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 |
