Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blondel, Jacob D. | 1817 - 1877 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Baker Jr., George A. | 1821 - 1880 | Anonymous | 05/02/2012 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bebie, Henry | 1824 - 1888 | Anonymous | 01/05/2013 | |
| 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 |
