Artists

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...

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...

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...

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...