Artists

Edwin Austin Forbes (1839 – March 6, 1895) was an American landscape painter and etcher who first gained fame during the American Civil Warfor his detailed and dramatic sketches of military subjects, including battlefield combat scenes. Biography Forbes was born in New York, studied under A. F. Tait, and began as an animal and landscape...

Fisher is known to have lived in Portland, ME.  He worked at Cumberland County Power and Light (along with Frederick J. Ilsey of the Brushians group).  Although not a member of the Brushians group of Portland, ME, his paintings are similar to theirs in size, style, and subject matter.

  Little is known about the artist Bradford Freeman.  During the 1860 Boston census, he was 21 years old and living with his parents and sister in Boston.   Consistent with the few paintings he is known to have painted, he died at an early age in 1875.  He exhibited with Benjamin Champney (1817-1907) as evidenced by the following excerpt (pictured)...

George Whiting Flagg (June 26, 1816 - January 5, 1897)(DOD- verified New York Times Jan. 12, 1897- Death List Of A Day) from New Haven, Connecticut, was an American painter of historical scenes and genre pictures. He was the brother of the artist Jared Bradley Flagg. George Whiting Flagg lived out his later years at his home located at 12...

The son of a maker of carriage bodies, James Frothingham was born near Boston, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1786. Initially he worked in his father's shop, where he taught himself to paint the finished coaches. He also experimented in sketching and is said to have received some instruction from Fabius Whiting, a younger artist based...

William Mark Fisher was born in Boston, MA in 1841.  His family was poor and he spent a good part of his childhood working.  At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to his cousin – a sign and house painter – William Lawless.  From this point on he began to study art – initially taking drawing classes (during the winter months) at the Lowell...

FIELD, ROBERT, painter; b. c. 1769, probably in London, England; d. 9 Aug. 1819 in Kingston, Jamaica.       Although the details of Robert Field’s early career in England are obscure, it is known that he received his early training at the Royal Academy schools, London, in 1790. In 1794 he moved to the United States as part of the influx of...

An influential Philadelphia painter and etcher of portraits and figure studies, Stephen James Ferris studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy and in Paris, under Jean Leon Gerome. He achieved a considerable reputation for his art in both America and Europe and received the prestigious Fortuny Prize for the best portrait, Rome, 1876. Stephen James...

Harry Fenn was known as a painter, illustrator, etcher, and engraver.  He began his career as a wood engraver but quickly switched to pencil drawings.  He came to the U.S. in 1864 ostensibly to see Niagra Falls, but he remained for six years, then traveled to Italy to study.  In 1870 he came back to the U.S. and illustrated his first book,...

James Fairman was an itinerant landscape painter whose work covered the expanse of the United States as it swelled to tremendous proportions. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Fairman emigrated to the United States with his family at the age of six. He studied at the National Academy of Design ten years later and went on to serve as a colonel in the Civil...

Erastus Salisbury Field and his twin sister, Salome, were born in Leverett, Massachusetts, on 19 May 1805. Erastus Field showed an early talent for sketching portraits, and in 1824 the aspiring artist traveled to New York City to study with Samuel F. B. Morse. Field's instruction was cut short by the death of Morse's wife in 1825, and it is not...

Henry Farrer (March 23, 1844 – February 24, 1903) was an English-born American artist known for his tonalist watercolor landscapes and etchings. Life Farrer was born in London, the younger brother of artist Thomas Charles Farrer. Thomas had studied under John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in...

John Mackie Falconer (1820–1903) was a Scottish-born American etcher, painter, and watercolorist. Born in Edinburgh, he came to the United States in 1836. A full member of the New York Etching Club, he was made an honorary member of the National Academy of Design in 1856. He is known for studies of older buildings and ruins. Falconer was a...