Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Goodridge, Eliza |
Elizabeth (Eliza) Goodridge (1798–1882) was an American painter who specialized in miniatures. She was the younger sister of Sarah Goodridge, also an American miniaturist.
Goodridge was born in Templeton, Massachusetts, the seventh child and fourth daughter of Ebenezer Goodridge and his wife Beulah Childs. Eliza's earliest miniatures date from the... | 1798 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Granger, Charles Henry |
An
itinerant painter who at various times was also a poet, linguist, composer,
musician, music teacher, sculptor, and draftsman, Charles Granger was born on
13 June 1812 in Saco, Maine, a town just south of Portland where the Saco River
meets the Atlantic. He was the son of Daniel Granger and Mary Jordan.
Granger's
artistic career began about... | 1812 - 1893 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Gerry, Samuel Lancaster |
In the
1840s, Samuel Lancaster Gerry was known as the leader of the White Mountain
School. This area in New Hampshire is the setting for a large number of the
landscapes for which he is most widely known, although he also painted
portraits, genre pictures and animal studies.
Gerry was born in Boston in 1813.
Although he had no formal instruction... | 1813 - 1891 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Gignoux, Regis-Francois |
Régis François Gignoux (1816–1882) was a French painter who was active in the United States from 1840 to 1870. He was born in Lyon, France and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under the French historical painter Hippolyte Delaroche, who inspired Gignoux to turn his talents toward landscape painting.[1] Gignoux arrived in the United States from... | 1816 - 1882 | Anonymous | 12/21/2012 |
| 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 |
| Grozelier, Sara Peters | 1821 - 1907 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
