Artists

Name
InfoYearsUpdated byDate
Custer, Edward L.notes
Edward L. Custer was a portrait, animal, and landscape painter.  He was born in Basel, Switzerland, on January 24, 1837.  Custer came to the United States in 1846 or 1847 with his family at about the age of ten, living first in Syracuse, NY and later in Manchester, NH.  His father became a doctor while in Manchester.   He went to Germany to study...
1837 - 1881Anonymous12/25/2012
Cushman, George Hewittnotes
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 - 1876Anonymous05/15/2012
Curtis, Ralph Wormeleynotes
Ralph Wormeley Curtis (* 1854 in Boston , † 1922 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer ) was an American painter and illustrator. The artists living in Europe, primarily under the influence of his painter friends John Singer Sargent and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Among his most famous subjects include cityscapes of Venice in the style of...
1854 -  1922Anonymous04/09/2012
Currier, Nathanielnotes
Nathaniel Currier (March 27, 1813 – November 20, 1888) was an American lithographer, who headed the company Currier & Ives with James Ives. Early years Currier was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts to Nathaniel and Hannah Currier. He attended public school until age fifteen, when he was apprenticed to the Boston printing firm of William and...
1813 -  1888Anonymous07/29/2012
Cuneo, Rinaldonotes
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 - 1939Anonymous05/18/2012
Cummings, Thomas Seirnotes
Thomas Seir Cummings (1804-94) was an American miniature painter and author, born at Bath, England. He came to New York early in life and studied there with Henry Inman. He painted miniatures in water color, and many of his sitters were well-known contemporaries of the artist. In 1826 he helped to found the National Academy of Design, was its...
1804 - 1894Anonymous05/15/2012
Culverhouse, Johan Mengelsnotes
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. 1891Anonymous05/13/2012
Cropsey, Jasper Francisnotes
Jasper Francis Cropsey (February 18, 1823 – June 22, 1900) was an important American landscape artist of the Hudson River School. Biography Cropsey was born on his father Jacob Rezeau Cropsey's farm in Rossville on Staten Island, New York, the oldest of eight children. As a young boy, Cropsey had recurring periods of poor health. While absent from...
1823 - 1900Anonymous05/15/2012
Cranstone, Lefevre James Died 1860Anonymous05/15/2012
Crane, Frank 1857 - 1917Anonymous05/15/2012
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