Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Cooke, George |
George
Cooke (1793–1849) was an itinerant United States painter who specialized
in portrait and landscape paintings and was one of the South's best known
painters of the mid nineteenth century.[1] His primary
patron was the industrialist Daniel Pratt, who built a gallery in Prattville,
Alabama solely to house Cooke's paintings.[1]
Early career... | 1793 - 1849 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Cushman, George Hewitt |
George
Hewitt Cushman (June 5, 1814 in Windham, Connecticut-August 3, 1876 in Jersey
City Heights, New Jersey), a top American engraver and painter of miniature
paintings and portraits of his time (second only to Edward Greene Malbone), turned early to these professions after family
financial misfortunes prevented him from entering West Point and... | 1814 - 1876 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Carlin, John |
The success of Carlin’s colorful and detailed
portraits allowed him to campaign successfully for the advanced education of
deaf people in the United States.
Biography
Painter and
writer John Carlin, who was profoundly deaf from early infancy, was a
ground-breaking advocate for the advancement of deaf and mute people in
America. Born in the... | 1813 - 1891 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Culverhouse, Johan Mengels |
Born in
Rotterdam on August 29,1820, Johan Mengels
Culverhouse was one of six children of R. Culverhouse and C. Mengels. Culverhouse made a name for himself as a
"candlelight painter," specializing in nocturnal scenes illuminated
by moonlight or candlelight in the tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch
painting. In the same tradition he also... | 1820 - ca. 1891 | Anonymous | 05/13/2012 |
| Corne, Michele Felice |
Michele Felice Cornè, considered
to be Salem, Massachusetts’ most versatile early nineteenth century
artist, arrived in America from Naples, Italy in 1800. Cornè
worked and lived in Salem from 1800-06 when he moved to Boston. During his
Boston tenure (1807-22) the artist was noted for painting portraits of Boston
ships and naval battles of the... | 1752 - 1845 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Calyo, Nicolino |
Born in
Naples, Nicolino Calyo was
an accomplished American nineteenth century view painter who brought the
discipline of his classical European training to vibrant portrayals of the
American scene. He studied at the
Naples Academy, where he learned Neoclassical, Italian, and Dutch landscape
techniques and traditions. Calyo fled Italy in 1821,... | 1799 - 1884 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
