Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Babcock, William P. | 1826 - 1899 | Anonymous | 04/15/2012 | |
| 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 |
| Brown, William Mason | 1828 - 1898 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
