Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cuneo, Rinaldo | 
Rinaldo
Cuneo (July 2, 1877 – December 27, 1939), dubbed the Painter of San
Francisco, was an American artist known for his landscape paintings and murals.
Early life and education
Rinaldo
Cuneo was born in San Francisco on July 2, 1877,[1][note 1] part of an Italian
American family of artists and musicians. Rinaldo was the second of... | 1877 - 1939 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Colman, Samuel |
Samuel
Colman (March 4, 1832 – March 26, 1920) was an American painter, interior
designer, and writer, probably best remembered for his paintings of the Hudson
River.
Born in Portland,
Maine, Colman moved to New York City with his family as a child. His father
opened a bookstore, attracting a literate clientele that may have influenced
Colman's... | 1832 - 1920 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
| Copley, John Singleton |
John Singleton Copley (1738[1] – 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts, and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects. His paintings were innovative in their tendency to... | 1738 - 1815 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Champney, Benjamin |
Benjamin Champney (November 20, 1817[1] – December 11, 1907) was
a painter whose name has become synonymous with White Mountain art of the 19th
century. He began his training as a lithographer under celebrated marine artist
Fitz Henry Lane at Pendleton's Lithography shop in Boston. Most art historians
consider him the founder of the "North Conway... | 1817 - 1907 | Anonymous | 01/05/2013 |
| Coombs, Delbert Dana |
Delbert
Dana Coombs was born in Lisbon Falls, Maine, on July 26, 1850.
Primarily
self-taught, Coombs did take painting lessons from Scott Leighton, an animal
painter, and he studied landscapes with Harrison Bird Brown. Coombs painted actively for over fifty
years. His subjects included
portraits, landscapes, and cattle.
Coombs painted in the... | 1850 - 1938 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Coates, Edmund C. |
A versatile
nineteenth-century painter, Edmund C. Coates created landscapes, seascapes,
portraits, and history paintings. Born in England, Coates spent his adult life
in New York City, where he was a frequent exhibitor at the National Academy of
Design. Working in the style of the Hudson River School, Coates produced
beautiful, idealized images of... | 1816 - 1871 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Clough, George Lafayette |
George
Lafayette Clough was born in 1824, in Auburn, New York, and was that city's
leading landscapist and most noted resident painter of the mid-century. His
mother was widowed shortly after his birth, and he was raised without paternal
influence. He had little formal education and was employed by the age of ten.
By age fifteen he had taken up... | 1824 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Carmiencke, Johann Hermann |
Johann
Hermann Carmiencke, a landscape painter and etcher, was born at Hamburg in
1810.
He went to Dresden
in 1831 as a journeyman painter, and while there studied in Dahl's school.
Thence he went to Copenhagen in 1834, where he studied in the Academy, and
presently repairing to Leipsic, received instruction there from Sohonberg.
Returning to... | 1810 - 1867 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Craig, Thomas Bigelow |
Thomas
Bigelow Craig (1849–1924) was an American landscape painter[1] from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] He is known for his paintings depicting cows
(and occasionally sheep[3]) in summer environments.[3][4] Craig's landscapes
often featured meadows and streams.[4] The animals in his earlier paintings did
not take up a large part of the canvas... | 1849 - 1924 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Chambers, Thomas |
Thomas
Chambers was born in London in 1808 and emigrated to
the United States in 1832. A painter of both landscapes and marine scenes,
Chambers did not confine his artistic subjects to views that he knew firsthand
but made liberal use of both his imagination and popular engraved images.
Chambers is known to have looked not only to the Englishman... | 1808 - 1866 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
