Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferris, Stephen James | 
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... | 1835 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Frerichs, William Charles Anthony |
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... | 1829 - 1905 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Fisher, William Mark |
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... | 1841 - 1923 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Forbes, Edwin |
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... | 1839 - 1895 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Fenimore, Thomas J. | Thomas J. Fenimore was 31 years of age when he died of typhoid fever on July 31, 1873 in Philadelphia, PA. He was, therefore, born either in 1841 or 1842. He began as a house painter but turned to fine art. According the his death notice in the Philadelphia Inquirer of August 2, 1873, "some pictures lately painted by him show that he was... | 1842 - 1873 | Anonymous | 01/13/2013 |
| Fisher, D.A. | 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. | Died after 1904 | Anonymous | 12/10/2012 |
| Freeman, Bradford |
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)... | 1839 - 1875 | Anonymous | 12/08/2012 |
| Frost, Francis Seth | Francis Seth Frost, usually referred to (incorrectly) as Francis Shedd Frost, was born in West Cambridge, Massachusetts in late April 1825 to Anstress Trow, a native of Mont Vernon, New Hampshire. Whether Frost had any artistic training is unknown, but he clearly was painting by the late 1840's. In 1853 Frost climbed to the Tip Top House on Mount... | 1825 - 1902 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 |
| Fuechsel, Hermann Traugott Louis | Hermann Fuechsel studied in Munich and in Dusseldorf, under Brander and C. F. Lessing, before coming to the U.S. in 1858. He was a member of the Artists Fund Society. He began exhibiting in 1860 at the Boston Athenaeum and the American Art Union. The Crayon for February of that year noted: " ... Mr. Fuechsel has completed a sunny mountain... | 1833 - 1915 | Anonymous | 12/08/2012 |
| Fisher, Alanson | 1807 - 1884 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
