Artists
Name | Info | Years
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Harding, Chester | ![]()
Chester
Harding (September 1, 1792 – April 1, 1866) was an American portrait
painter.
Biography
Harding was
born at Conway, Massachusetts. Brought up in the wilderness of New York state,
he was a lad of robust physique, standing over 6 feet 3 inches. His family
removed to Caledonia, New York, when he was fourteen years old, and he was
early... | 1792 - 1866 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Havell, Robert | ![]()
Robert Havell, Jr. (Nov. 25, 1793 - Nov. 11, 1878) was the
principal engraver of Audubon's Birds of America, perhaps the most significant
natural history publication of all time. His aquatint engraving of all but the
first ten plates of John James Audubon's Birds of America is now recognized as
a significant artistic achievement in its own right... | 1793 - 1878 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
Hite, George Harrison | 1807 - 1880 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
Hancock, Nathaniel | Died 1809 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
Hubard, William James | 1809 - 1862 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
Huge, Jurgan Frederick | ![]()
Jurgan
Frederick Huge was born in Hamburg in 1809. Of the approximately fifty known
examples of his work, most are renderings of sailing and steam vessels, which
recall the artist's youth as a seaman. Huge (at that time spelling his given
names Jurgen Friedrich) came to America as a young
man. By 1830 he was established as the owner of a store in... | 1809 - 1878 | Alexander Lusher | 05/14/2012 |
Hill, John William | ![]()
John
William Hill or often J.W. Hill (1812–1879) was a British born American
artist working in watercolor, gouache, lithography, and engraving. Hill's work focussed primarily upon natural subjects including
landscapes, still lifes, and ornithological and zoological
subjects. In the 1850s, influenced by John Ruskin and Hill's association... | 1812 - 1879 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Healy, George P.A. | ![]()
George
Peter Alexander Healy (July 15, 1813 - June 24, 1894) was an American painter
born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Going to Europe
in 1835 Healy studied under Baron Gros in Paris and in Rome. He received a
third-class medal in Paris in 1840, and one of the second class in 1855, when
he exhibited his "Franklin urging the claims of the American... | 1813 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Hinckley, Thomas Hewes | 1813 - 1896 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
Hamlin, Jr., Amos C. | 1814 - 1872 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |