Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Funk, Wilhelm Heinrich | 1866 - 1949 | Anonymous | 04/18/2013 | |
Fulton, Robert |
Robert
Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer
and inventor who is widely credited with developing
the first commercially successful steamboat. In 1800 he was commissioned by
Napoleon Bonaparte to design the Nautilus, which was the first practical
submarine in history.[1]
Fulton
became interested in steamboats in... | 1765 - 1815 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Fuller, Henry Brown | 1867 - 1934 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Fuller, George |
George
Fuller (January 17, 1822 – March 21, 1884) was an American figure and portrait
painter.
Fuller was
born in Deerfield, Massachusetts. His father, Aaron Fuller, was a farmer. His
mother was Aaron's second wife, Fanny Negus of Petersham, Massachusetts. His
parents were not in favor of Fuller becoming a painter. At age thirteen, he
went to... | 1822 - 1884 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Fuller, Augustus | 1812 - 1873 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Fuertes, Louis Agassiz |
Louis
Agassiz Fuertes (7 February 1874 Ithaca, New York – 22 August 1927
Unadilla) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist.
Biography
Fuertes was
the son of Estevan and Mary Stone Perry Fuertes. He decided to concentrate on
painting birds as a career after meeting Elliott Coues in 1894 while on a trip
to Washington, D.C. with the... | 1874 - 1927 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
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 |
Frothingham, James |
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... | 1786 - 1864 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Frost, George Albert |
George
Albert Frost (December 23, 1843 – November 13, 1907) was an American
artist of the 19th century. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and had a
studio in North Cambridge, Massachusetts for several years. He studied under
Nicolas de Keyser at the Academy Royale de Belgique
in Antwerp.[1] His paintings were mostly landscapes,
and he is... | 1843 - 1907 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
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 |