Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Frieseke, Frederick Carl |
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... | 1874 - 1939 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Fisher, Alvan |
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... | 1792 - 1863 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Farrer, Henry |
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... | 1843 - 1903 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
| Fery, John |
Born in
Austria, John Fery earned a strong reputation for
dramatic paintings of western mountain landscape in the United States. Glacier National Park in northwest
Montana was a popular subject for him.
He was
raised in a prominent, wealthy family that lived on an estate about nineteen
miles northeast of Salzburg. His
mother was Hungarian, and... | 1859 - 1934 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Francis, John F. |
John F.
Francis (Philadelphia, Aug 13, 1808 – Jeffersonville, Nov 15, 1886) was
an American painter, primarily of still lifes.
He was born
in Philadelphia. Predominantly self-taught as an artist, he worked until 1845
as a portrait painter in central and eastern Pennsylvania. Francis's portraits
reveal his early fascination with the most minute... | 1808 - 1886 | Anonymous | 06/11/2012 |
| 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 |
| Ferguson, Henry Augustus |
Born in 1845 in Glens Falls, New York, Ferguson was a landscape painter and highy energetic world traveler, both in years spent and distances covered, exploring exotic motifs for his paintings. Europe, Mexico, South America, Egypt, were some of his destinations, including the daunting Andes Mountains, which he traveled over a half dozen... | 1841 - 1926 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Fairman, James |
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... | 1826 - 1904 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
