Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brumidi, Constantino | 
Constantino
Brumidi (July 26, 1805 – February 19, 1880) was an Greek/Italian-American
historical painter, best known and honored for his fresco work in the Capitol
Building in Washington, DC.
Parentage and early life
Brumidi was
born in Rome, his father a Greek and his mother an Italian. He showed his
talent for fresco painting at an early age... | 1805 - 1880 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
| Bartlett, William Henry |
William
Henry Bartlett (March 26, 1809 – September 13, 1854) was a British
artist, best known for his numerous steel engravings.
Biography
Bartlett
was born in Kentish Town, London in 1809. He was apprenticed to John Britton
(1771–1857), and became one of the foremost illustrators of topography of
his generation.
He
travelled throughout... | 1809 - 1854 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
| Broadbent Jr., Samuel | 1810 - 1880 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Bufford, John Henry |
John Henry Bufford (1810-1870) was a lithographer in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts.
Biography
Bufford trained "in the Pendleton shop in Boston from 1829 to 1831."[1] According to one historian, Bufford's work as a lithographer represented "a mediocre sort of craftmanship at best. ...He had no very special skills as [an] original artist and... | 1810 - 1870 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
