Artists

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Hetzel, Georgenotes
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 - 1899Anonymous05/16/2012
Hope, Jamesnotes
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 - 1892Anonymous04/10/2012
Holdredge, Ransome Gilletnotes
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 - 1899Anonymous05/16/2012
Hubbard, Richard Williamnotes
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 - 1888Anonymous05/16/2012
Hirschberg, Carlnotes
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 -  1923Anonymous05/16/2012
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
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
Hidley, Joseph H.notes
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 - 1872Anonymous05/16/2012
Hill, John Henrynotes
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 - 1922Anonymous05/16/2012
Hill, Johnnotes
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 - 1850Anonymous05/16/2012
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