Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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| Davidson, Julian Oliver |  A specialist in naval illustration, Julian Davidson was extremely valuable to the editors of The Century magazine during the Civil War to depict naval action. He reconstructed his illustrations from eyewitness accounts and quick on-the-site sketches, and many of his works were reproduced in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War and Harper's Weekly.
He... | 1853 - 1894 | Anonymous | 11/05/2012 |
| Drew, Clement |
Clement Drew (1806-1889) was an artist and "dealer in picture-frames" in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1] He specialized in marine paintings. He kept a studio on Court Street (ca.1840s-1860s),[2][3] Tremont Street (in the Boston Museum building, ca.1873), Copeland Street (ca.1888),[4] and Tremont Temple (1889).[5] He married Elizabeth... | 1806 - 1889 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Deas, Charles |
Charles Deas (December 22, 1818 – March 23, 1867), was an American painter noted for his oil paintings of
Native Americans and fur trappers of the mid-19th century.
Biography
Charles Deas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attempted,
and failed, to obtain an appointment to the United States Military Academy at
West Point, New York.[1]... | 1818 - 1867 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Dunton, William Herbert |
William Herbert Dunton, known later in life as “Buck,” was born in Augusta, Maine, in 1878. His lifelong passion for the outdoors was nurtured from an early age by his grandfather, who took him on expeditions, teaching him about hunting and fishing. Drawing the outdoors followed naturally. As a child, Dunton was self-taught, developing a precise... | 1878 - 1936 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Dunlap, William |
The first historian of the American stage, William Dunlap was a passionate lover of the arts, a gifted painter, a tireless chronicler of his day and a writer of considerable charm. He wrote or adapted more than sixty plays. While subsequent scholarship has found a considerable number of innacuracies in his historical work, his first hand account of... | 1766 - 1839 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
| Dearth, Henry Golden |
Henry
Golden Dearth (22 April 1864 – 27 March 1918) was a distinguished
American painter[1] who studied in Paris and continued
to spend his summers in France painting in the Normandy region. He would return
to New York in winter, and became known for his moody paintings of the Long
Island area. Around 1912, Dearth changed his artistic style, and... | 1864 - 1918 | Anonymous | 07/27/2012 |
| De Haven, Franklin |
Franklin DeHaven (1856 – 1934) was born in Bluffton, Indiana on December 26, 1856. Nothing seems to have been recorded about his early personal or artistic life prior to his arrival in New York City in 1886 where he became a student of George H. Smillie who taught landscape painting in a classical, tonalist style.
DeHaven enjoyed early success with... | 1856 - 1934 | Anonymous | 07/18/2012 |
| Duveneck, Elizabeth Boott | 1846 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Dodge, Edward S. | 1816 - 1857 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Dewing, Thomas Wilmer |
Thomas Dewing was born on May 4, 1851, in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts. As a child he was interested in both drawing and in playing the violin; this early interest in music would later reappear in the themes of many of his paintings. By 1872, after a period of apprenticeship in a lithography shop, Dewing was listing his profession as "artist." He... | 1851 - 1938 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
