Artists

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Hennessy, William Johnnotes
Hennessy spent the summer months in Normandy where he had a residence close to the port of Honfleur. A school of painting, based in Saint Siméon’s Inn, was already well established there. Corot, Isabey and Huet were amongst the first painters of the group. Boudin, who was born there, invited Courbet, Jongkind and Monet to join them. It was at...
1839 -  1917Anonymous05/19/2012
Hays, William Jacobnotes
William Jacob Hays spent most of his life in New York City but occasionally ventured to the Adirondack Mountains of New York, Nova Scotia, and England on search for subjects to paint. He studied art with John Ruebens Smith, an important topographer and lithographer, and exhibited at the American Art Union in 1848. His most inspirational and...
1830 - 1875Anonymous05/19/2012
Hart, James McDougalnotes
James McDougal Hart (May 10, 1828 – October 24, 1901), was a Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter of the Hudson River School. His older brother, William Hart, was also a Hudson River School artist, and the two painted similar subjects. Hart was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, and was taken to America with his family in early youth....
1828 - 1901Anonymous05/19/2012
Hill, Thomasnotes
Thomas Hill (September 11, 1829 – June 30, 1908) was an American artist of the 19th century. He produced many fine paintings of the California landscape, in particular of the Yosemite Valley, as well as the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Biography Thomas Hill was born in England on September 11, 1829. At the age of 15, he emigrated to the...
1829 - 1908Anonymous05/18/2012
Hicks, Thomasnotes
Thomas Hicks  (b Newtown, PA, 18 Oct 1823; d Trenton Falls, NY, 8 Oct 1890). Cousin of (1) Edward Hicks. After being apprenticed (c. 1835–9) in the sign-painting shop of his cousin, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (1839–40) and at the National Academy of Design in New York (1840–44). He then sketched...
1823 - 1890Anonymous05/18/2012
Hills, Laura Coombs 1859 - 1952Anonymous05/18/2012
Hamilton, Jamesnotes
Esteemed by his peers as "our ablest marine painter," James Hamilton won fame as an artist who, "in his best works, exhibited the higher mental powers of the poet, as well as rare technical skill." Born in Entrien, near Belfast, Ireland, Hamilton emigrated with his family to the United States in 1834, settling in Philadelphia. He exhibited his...
1819 -  1878Anonymous05/18/2012
Hall, George Henrynotes
George Henry Hall was American painter of Academic Realism and Hudson River Style. George Henry Hall was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. His father moved the family to Boston when George was four years old. George Henry Hall began his career as an artist at the age of 16. In 1849 he traveled with his friend Eastman Johnson to Düsseldorf,...
1825 -  1913Anonymous05/18/2012
Haskell, Ernestnotes
Ernest Haskell was born in Woodstock, Connecticut. In 1897 he left to study in Paris, returning to New York in 1899 and supporting himself with portrait work and poster design. The mountain lake in Ernest Haskell's etching The Sylvan Sea was one of many different locales--from California to Florida to Maine--he depicted in his work. In addition to...
1876 - 1925Anonymous05/18/2012
Hofmann, Charles C.notes
Charles C. Hofmann was born in Germany around 1820, and immigrated to America in 1860, arriving in the port of New York. In subsequent years he lived in several communities along Pennsylvania's Schuylkill River, sometimes as a resident/patient of the public poorhouses. He is the best-known of the three so-called "Pennsylvania Almshouse Painters," the...
1820 - 1882Anonymous05/18/2012
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