Artists
Name | Info | Years
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Coman, Charlotte Buell | 1833 - 1924 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
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 |
Carpenter, Francis B. | ![]()
Francis
Bicknell Carpenter (August 6, 1830 – May 23, 1900) was an American
painter born in Homer, New York. Carpenter is best known for his painting First
Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln, which is hanging
in the United States Capitol. Carpenter resided with President Lincoln at the
White House and in 1866 published... | 1830 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Craig, William C. | ![]() William C. Craig was born in Ireland in 1829. Primarily a watercolorist, he came to the United States in 1863. In 1866 he was one of the founding members of the American Society of Painters in Water Colors along with William Hart and Samuel Colman. He painted mostly in the northeast in the style of the Hudson River School painters.
He exhibited... | 1829 - 1875 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
Chappel, Alonzo | ![]()
Alonzo
Chappel (1828–1887) was an American painter, best known for paintings
depicting personalities and events from the American Revolution and early
19th-century American history.
Chappel was
born in New York City and died in Middle Island, New York.[1]
References
^ "Alonzo
Chappel". Smithsonian
Institution. Retrieved
2009-01-22.
External... | 1828 - 1887 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
Church, Frederic Edwin | ![]()
Frederic
Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape
painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson
River School of American landscape painters. While committed to the natural
sciences, he was "always concerned with including a spiritual dimension in
his works."[1]
Biography
Beginnings
The... | 1826 - 1900 | Anonymous | 04/01/2012 |
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 |
Cropsey, Jasper Francis | ![]()
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 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Clague, Richard | ![]()
Widely
credited as the founder of the landscape painting tradition in Louisiana,
French-born painter Richard Clague received most of
his formal artistic training in Europe. While landscape painting had gained
some popularity in the northern states by the early nineteenth century and
there was a strong tradition of decorative and scenic painting,... | 1821 - 1873 | 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 |