Artists

Frerichs was born in Ghent Belgium, the son of William Daniel, a general in the Dutch Army.  His name at birth was Wilhelm Karel Anthonius Frerichs.  He was educated in Belgium, having studied medicine at the University of Leyden and art at the Royal Academies in The Hague and Brussels.  When he was only 18 years old, he completed a 12 x 17 foot...

James Edward Freeman (1808–November 21, 1884) was an American painter, diplomat, and author. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City and in Rome, Italy. He expatriated to Rome in 1841 when he was appointed U.S. Consul to Ancona, in the Papal States. Early life and career in America Freeman was born on Indian Island, in New...

Alvan Fisher (August 9, 1792 – February 13, 1863) was one of the United States's pioneers in landscape painting and genre works. Early years He was born in Needham, Massachusetts, the fourth of Aaron and Lucy (Stedman) Fisher's six sons. He moved with members of his family to Dedham, Massachusetts, around 1805 where he worked as a clerk in his...

Born in Owosso, Michigan, Frederick Frieseke studied at The Art Institute of Chicago beginning in 1893, before going East to the Art Students League in New York City in 1897, and then to Paris in 1898. There, he studied at the Acad6mie Julian, and with James Abbott McNeill Whistler for a short period at the Acad6mie Carmen. Frieseke7s earliest...