Artists
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Hetzel, George | ![]()
Realistic
painter, George Hetzel is considered one of Pennsylvania's most significant
landscape, portrait, and still-life painters of the nineteenth century.
He was born
in Hangviller, a small village in the province of Alsace, France, in 1826.
Hetzels father decided that America offered unparalleled opportunities for a
better life, however, and... | 1826 - 1899 | 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 |
Holdredge, Ransome Gillet | ![]()
Ransome
Gillett Holdridge was an early San Francisco school painter, specializing in
Northern California landscapes.
Biography
Holdridge
was born in New York City (or possibly London, England[1]) in 1836, and moved
to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1850s, where he became head
draughtsman at Mare Island Naval Yard. In 1874, with the... | 1836 - 1899 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
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 |
Hirschberg, Carl | ![]()
Carl
Hirschberg (1854-1923) was a prominent figure in the American art movement who
founded the Salmagundi Club and was also the organizers of the Student Arts
League. As a young man he studied in Paris. This beautiful and lyrical painting
depicts the Whippany River on one side and an anonymous landscape on the other.
| 1854 - 1923 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Hall, George Henry | ![]()
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 - 1913 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
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 |
Hidley, Joseph H. | ![]()
Joseph
Henry Hidley was born 23 March 1830 in Greenbush, the
part that later became North Greenbush, Rensselaer County, NY. He was baptised 11 July 1830 at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
in the village of West Sand Lake, in the town of Sand
Lake, Rensselaer County. Joseph's family had close ties to this church through
several generations.
His... | 1830 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Hill, John Henry | ![]()
Working in
watercolor, gouache, oil, and engraving, Hill focused primarily upon natural
subjects as influenced by the writings of John Ruskin.
Biography
John Henry
Hill was a painter and engraver of the American pre-Raphaelite movement.
Pre-Raphaelitism in America meant an emphasis on meticulous detail in depicting
observed, as opposed to... | 1839 - 1922 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Hill, John | ![]()
John Hill
was born in London in 1770, and was apprenticed as a youth to an engraver in
that city. He became interested in the process of aquatinting, a technique
wherein a metal plate is etched several times in order to create tonal
gradations, resulting in a print that is easier to hand-color due to the
variety of subtle tones produced. Hill began... | 1770 - 1850 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |