Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Clear, Thomas Le | 1818 - 1882 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
| Cafferty, James H. | 1819 - 1869 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
