Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Goodwin, Arthur Clifton | 1864 - 1929 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
| 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 |
| Glackens, William |
William
James Glackens (March 13, 1870 – May 22, 1938) was an American realist
painter.
Glackens
studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later moved to New
York City, where he co-founded what came to be called the Ashcan School art
movement. This group of artists, dubbed by the press "the Eight
Independent Painters" or The... | 1870 - 1938 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
| Grant, Gordon | 1875 - 1962 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 | |
| Garrett, Edmund Henry | 1853 - 1929 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 | |
| Gaugengigl, Ignaz Marcel | 1855 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Gay, Edward |
Edward Gay
was a landscape painter who really didn't fit into any particular category or school. He
learned technique from several artists with whom he studied, but was not
markedly influenced by them. His paintings depicted what he saw - no more, no
less. He did not romanticize or idealize.
Born in Ireland in 1837, Gay came to
America with... | 1837 - 1928 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Gifford, Robert Swain |
Robert
Swain Gifford was born on a small island called Nonamesset,
which adjoins Naushon in the chain of Elizabeth
Islands off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts. When Gifford was two years
old his family moved to Fairhaven where his father was employed as a boatman
and fisherman.
Two famous
New Bedford artists worked on the Fairhaven... | 1840 - 1905 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
