Artists
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Griggs, Samuel W. | ![]()
Griggs was
listed as an architect in the Boston City directory from 1848 to 1852 and as an
artist from 1854 until his death. At the time of his death he was living at 63
Studio Building in Boston. The competency of his work strongly suggests that he
had professional training, and it is believed that he studied under Bierstadt
before Bierstadt was... | 1827 - 1898 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Grant, Clement Rollins | ![]()
Clement
Rollins Grant was a painter-etcher who was born in 1849 in Freeport, Maine. He
studied in England in 1867, before setting up studios at 112 West Street in
Boston (1882-) and Broadway & 33 rd Street and 80
Washington Square, New York City (1883-) and he rapidly became recognized as a
competent realist who specialized in human genre... | 1849 - 1893 | Anonymous | 03/15/2014 |
Grose, Daniel Charles | ![]()
Daniel
Charles Grose (1838–1900) was a prolific
Canadian - American painter of the Hudson River School who was active between
1865 and 1900.
History
Daniel
Charles Grose was born ca. 1838. His parents’
names are not known. Several sources indicate his Uncle was English antiquary
Francis Grose, however, this assertion appears to be
based on... | 1838 - 1900 | Anonymous | 07/28/2012 |
Guy, Francis | ![]()
(b Burton in Kendall or Lorton, Cumbria,
1760; d Brooklyn, NY, 12 Aug 1820). American painter of
English birth. In England he was apprenticed to a tailor and then worked
in the textile trade. A business failure prompted him to leave London for New
York in 1795. By early 1798 he was settled in Baltimore, MD, where he lived for
the next 20 years.... | 1760 - 1820 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
Gray, Henry Peters | ![]()
Henry
Peters Gray (June 23, 1819 - November 12, 1877) was an American portrait and
genre painter.
Born in New
York City he was a pupil of Daniel Huntington in New York, and subsequently studied
in Rome and Florence. Elected a member of the National Academy of Design in
1842, he succeeded Huntington as president in 1870, holding the position... | 1819 - 1877 | Anonymous | 06/18/2012 |
Green, James | ![]()
GREEN,
JAMES (1771-1834), portrait-painter, born at Leytonstone in Essex, 13 March
1771, was son of a builder. He was apprenticed to Thomas Martyn,
a draughtsman of natural history, who resided at 10 Great Marlborough Street.
Here Green remained several years, and showed great talent in the imitation of
shells and insects. Having higher aims in... | 1771 - 1834 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
Goodridge, Sarah | ![]()
Sarah
Goodridge (February 5, 1788 – December 28, 1853) was an American painter
who specialized in miniatures. She was the older sister of Elizabeth (Eliza)
Goodridge, also an American miniaturist.
Goodridge
was born in Templeton, Massachusetts, the sixth child and third daughter of
Ebenezer Goodridge and his wife Beulah Childs. At an early age,... | 1788 - 1853 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Guy, Seymour Joseph | ![]()
Seymour
Joseph Guy established a reputation in the United States in the mid-nineteenth
century as one of the finest genre painters of children. His primarily
cabinet-sized pictures were esteemed by his fellow artists and leading
collectors of American art. He was widely respected for his technical ability
and knowledge of the science of painting,... | 1824 - 1910 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Gimbrede, Thomas | ![]()
Gimbrede
was born in Agen, France in 1781 but emigrated to America, where he worked in New York and
Baltimore as an engraver and miniature painter, before taking up a position as
teacher of drawing and of French at the West Point Military Academy, where he
died 24 Dec 1832.
Judging by
the comments on his grave at West Point, where it is recorded... | 1781 - 1832 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |