Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Desch, Frank H. | 1873 - 1934 | Anonymous | 11/18/2012 | |
| Durand, John |
John Durand's birth and death dates are unknown, and only a few of his portraits are signed and dated. The sketchy chronology of his life is based on these few signed works, as well as on account book entries and information about his sitters. Scholars place his first activity in Virginia in 1765, but by 1766 Durand was in New York City. In that year... | 1731 - 1805 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 |
| Doyle, William M. S. | William M.S. Doyle was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1769. His father was a British soldier, but Doyle seems to have lived and worked his entire life in Boston. Doyle was a silhouettist, artist of portraits of both full-size and miniature. He worked in silhouette cutting, watercolor, oil and pastel. His silhouettes were beautifully rendered in... | 1769 - 1828 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 |
| 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 |
| Darrah, Ann Sophia Towne | Ann Sophia Towne Darrah was a pupil of Paul Weber. She was a competent artist whose long career included executing pastel portraits, landscapes, and marine views. Her later works were done in plein air.
In 1858 she took part in the Bierstadt Exhibition in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum from 1855 to 1865 and at... | 1819 - 1881 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| Dolph, John Henry | John Henry Dolph is one of America's finest animal painters and he is most famous for his depictions of playful kittens and puppies that frolic on oriental rugs within Victorian interiors. Playful terrier and Kittens shows Dolph’s expertise at handling, in an academic manner, how fur, woven wool and anatomy can be painted with sureness and... | 1835 - 1903 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| 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 La Vallee, Jean Francois | Died 1844 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
