Artists

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Brooks, Alden Finneynotes
Alden Finney Brooks was born April 3, 1840, in Williamsfield, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, of Charles and Isabel [Thompson] Brooks. He received an academic education in J L. Pickard's institution at Platteville, Wis., from 1857 to 1859. Being in poor health he made the journey to Eureka, Cal., on foot in 1859. In 1861 he returned home and enlisted early in...
1840 - 1932Anonymous04/18/2013
Buck, William Henry 1840 -  1888Anonymous05/18/2012
Bunner, Andrew Fisher 1841 - 1897Anonymous04/13/2012
Burton, Charles Died 1842Anonymous05/14/2012
Bell-Smith, Frederic Marlettnotes
  Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith (September 26, 1846 – June 23, 1923) was a Canadian landscape painter best known for his works of the Rocky Mountains and the Selkirk Range. Bell-Smith emigrated to Canada from England in 1866. He had studied painting in England and worked as an artist and photographer in Montreal until 1871, when he moved to Toronto....
1846 - 1923Anonymous12/25/2012
Blakelock, Ralph Albertnotes
Ralph Albert Blakelock (October 15, 1847 – August 9, 1919) was a romanticist painter from the United States. Biography Ralph Blakelock was born in New York City on October 15, 1847.[1] His father was a successful physician.[1] Blakelock initially set out to follow in his footsteps, and in 1864 began studies at the Free Academy of the City of...
1847 - 1919Anonymous05/18/2012
Bridgman, Frederick Arthurnotes
Frederick Arthur Bridgman (November 10, 1847 – January 13, 1928) was an American artist known for his paintings of "Orientalist" subjects. Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, he was the son of a physician. He began as a draughtsman in New York City, for the American Bank Note Company in 1864–1865, and studied art in the same years at the Brooklyn Art...
1847 - 1928Anonymous04/09/2012
Blashfield, Edwin Howlandnotes
Edwin Howland Blashfield (December 5, 1848 – October 12, 1936), an American artist, was born in New York City. He was a pupil of Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat in Paris beginning in 1867, and became (1888) a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. For some years a genre painter, he later turned to decorative work, where his academic...
1848 - 1936Anonymous05/18/2012
Bromley, Valentine Walternotes
BROMLEY, VALENTINE WALTER (1848-1877), painter, great-grandson of William Bromley (1769-1842) [q. v.], was born in London on 14 Feb. 1848. From his childhood he manifested a remarkable faculty for art, both as an original designer and as a depicter of nature. He was especially remarkable for invention and swiftness of execution. He contributed...
1848 -  1877Anonymous04/06/2012
Beckwith, James Carrollnotes
James Carroll Beckwith (September 23, 1852 – October 24, 1917) was an American landscape, portrait and genre painter whose Impressionist style led to his recognition in the late nineteenth century as a prominent figure in American art. Biography Carroll Beckwith, as he preferred to be known, was born in Hannibal, Missouri on 23 September 1852,...
1852 - 1917Anonymous01/02/2013
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