Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoppin, Thomas F. | 1816 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
| Huntington, Daniel | 
Daniel
Huntington (October 4, 1816 – April 19, 1906), American artist, was born
in New York City, New York, the son of Benjamin Huntington, Jr. and Faith
Trumbull Huntington; his paternal grandfather was Benjamin Huntington, delegate
at the Second Continental Congress and First U.S. Representative from
Connecticut. From 1833 to 1835 he studied at... | 1816 - 1906 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Hubbard, Richard William |
Richard
William Hubbard was a prominent member of the Hudson River School known for his
luminous, delicately-painted landscapes. Born in Middletown, Connecticut,
Hubbard attended Yale College before moving to New York City to pursue his
painting career. He trained under Samuel F.B. Morse at New York University and
spent two years in Europe studying... | 1817 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Humphreys, Charles S. |
Charles
Spencer Humphreys was born on 18 February 1818 in Moorestown, New Jersey. He
was one of seven children of Joshua Humphreys and Abigail Cox. By the age of
nineteen Humphreys was living in Camden, New Jersey, where on 10 May 1837 he
placed the following advertisement in the Camden Mail and General Advertiser:
"House, Sign and Ornamental... | 1818 - 1880 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Hope, James |
James Hope
was born in Scotland and, following the death of his mother, accompanied his
father to Canada. At the age of
twelve he was orphaned in a cholera outbreak. Soon apprenticed to a wagon maker in
Vermont, he quickly demonstrated that his native intelligence and artistic
talent precluded a tradesman's career.
With money saved he... | 1818 - 1892 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
| Heade, Martin Johnson |
Martin
Johnson Heade (August 11, 1819 – September 4, 1904) was a prolific
American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, portraits of
tropical birds, and still lifes. His painting style and subject matter, while
derived from the romanticism of the time, is regarded by art historians as a
significant departure from that of his... | 1819 - 1904 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Hamilton, James |
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 - 1878 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Hofmann, Charles C. |
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 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Hilling, John |
John
Hilling was born in England in 1822 and arrived in America by the early 1840s,
when he settled in the coastal town of Bath, Maine. He married his first wife,
Jane (last name unknown), before 1844 and fathered at least three children, two
of whom died in early childhood.
Hill
resided in Bath until he enlisted as a private in the Civil War... | 1822 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Hensel, Salome |
The
attribution to Salome Hensel and date (1823) of the
National Gallery's To the Memory of the Benevolent Howard (1971.83.22), an
unsigned theorem painting, are based on a label that was once afixed to the reverse. It reads: "This painting was
done in 1823 by Salome Hensel eldest daughter of
George and Catherine Noon Hensel. Salome was
afterwards... | Born 1823 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
