Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Buttersworth, James E. |
James
Edward Buttersworth (1817–1894) was an English painter who specialized in
maritime art, and is considered among the foremost American ship portraitists
of the nineteenth century.[1] His paintings are particularly known for their
meticulous detail, dramatic settings, and grace in movement.
Early life and education
Buttersworth
was born in... | 1817 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Blondel, Jacob D. | 1817 - 1877 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Bard, James |
James Bard
was a marine artist of the 19th century. He is known for his paintings of
watercraft, particularly of steamboats. His works are sometimes characterized
as naïve art. Although Bard died poor and almost forgotten, his works have
since become valuable. Bard had a twin brother, John (1815–1856) and they
collaborated on earlier... | 1815 - 1897 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
| Boardman, William G. |
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... | 1815 - 1895 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Blythe, David Gilmour |
David
Gilmour Blythe (May 9, 1815 – May 15, 1865) was a self-taught American
artist best known for paintings which satirically portrayed political and
social situations.
Early years
Blythe was
born in East Liverpool, Ohio on May 9, 1815 to poor parents of Scottish and
Irish ancestry. After a childhood in a log cabin by the Ohio River, at the... | 1815 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Brown, George Loring |
George Loring Brown (1814-1889) was an American landscape painter. He was born in Boston and first studied wood engraving under Alonzo Hartwell and worked as an illustrator. He studied painting with Washington Allston, but soon went to Europe, residing principally in Italy for years. The motives of his pictures are usually Italian, and there is... | 1814 - 1889 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Browere, Albertus Del Orient |
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 - 1887 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Bingham, George Caleb |
George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) was an American artist whose paintings of American life in the frontier lands along the Missouri River exemplify the Luminist style. Left to languish in obscurity, Bingham's work was rediscovered in the 1930s. He is now widely considered one of the greatest American painters of the 19th... | 1811 - 1879 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
