Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| De Grailly, Victor |  I. Biography
Little is known about the life of French artist Victor de Grailly, famous for his Hudson River School-style landscapes of the United States. Born in France in 1804, he studied with neo-classical painter Jean Victor Bertin, who also mentored the great Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
Surprisingly, it is unlikely that de Grailly ever traveled to... | 1804 - 1889 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| 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 |
| De La Vallee, Jean Francois | Died 1844 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 | |
| De Luce, Percival | 1849 - 1914 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| DeCamp, Joseph |
Joseph Rodefer DeCamp was a successful
portrait painter; he also created exquisite interior views with a soft-edged
luminosity, as well as landscapes characterized by the broken brushwork, bright
light and color, and contemporary subjects of impressionism. DeCamp began his art studies as a teenager at the McMicken School of Design in his native... | 1858 - 1923 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
| Decker, Joseph |
Although Joseph Decker never achieved an important artistic reputation during his lifetime, his varied career encompassed more than thirty productive years. Born to a carpenter and his wife in 1853 in Wurtemberg, Germany, Decker emigrated with his family to America at the age of fourteen. He was first apprenticed to a Brooklyn house painter, then... | 1853 - 1924 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 |
| Defrees, Thaddeus | Thaddeus Defrees was born in Boston, MA on September 27, 1855. His parents were Georgianna and William, a machinist.
Defrees's style of painting shows strong influence of the French Barbizon School. He was active in the White Mountains from at least 1877 until his death. He exhibited at the Boston Art Club in January, 1878. He was... | 1855 - 1888 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Demuth, Charles |
Charles
Demuth (November 8, 1883 – October 23, 1935) was an American
watercolorist who turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of
painting known as Precisionism.
"Search
the history of American art," wrote Ken Johnson in the New York Times,
"and you will discover few watercolors more beautiful than those of
Charles Demuth.... | 1883 - 1935 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
