Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hayes, George A. | 
Nothing is
known about this artist except his name, given in the inscription on the
National Gallery's painting Bare Knuckles (1980.62.9) as GEO. A. HAYES. The
artist was active c. 1870/1885, dates derived from the clothes worn by the
figures in the painting. [This is an edited version of the artist's biography
published, or to be published, in the... | Born 1870 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Hesselius, John |
John
Hesselius (1728–1778) was a portraitist who worked mostly in Virginia and
Maryland. He was the son of the Swedish-born portraitist Gustavus Hesselius.
Background
John
Hesselius was most likely born in Philadelphia, where his father owned a house
to satisfy clients. Claims that he was born in Prince Georges County, Maryland
are unfounded,... | 1728 - 1778 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |
| Hill, Thomas |
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 - 1908 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Haberle, John |
John
Haberle was born in 1856 in New Haven, Connecticut, to Swiss immigrant parents.
At age
fourteen he left school to apprentice for a bookplate designer and engraver, where
he learned the precision of hand-and-eye coordination necessary for detailed
representation. He also worked at Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural
History, painting... | 1856 - 1933 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Hart, James McDougal |
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 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Harrison, T. Alexander |
Thomas
Alexander Harrison (January 17, 1853, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania –
October 13, 1930) was an American marine painter who spent much of his career
in France.
Career
He studied at
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, then
joined a United States government survey expedition on the Pacific coast.
Beginning in 1878, he... | 1853 - 1930 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Hart, William |
William
Hart (March 31, 1823 – June 17, 1894), was a
Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter, and Hudson River School
artist. His younger brother, James McDougal Hart, was also a Hudson River School
artist, and the two painted similar subjects. He studied under Jules-Joseph
Lefebvre.
Biography
Hart was
born in Paisley, Scotland, and... | 1823 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| 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 |
| Hills, Anna Althea |
On January 28, 1882, Anna Althea Hills (1882-1930) was born in Ravenna, Ohio. She was a great early American artist and a member of the California school of Impressionism. She is best known for her landscape, marine, genre and figure painting. Anna Hills was the founder and six term president of the Laguna Beach Art Association and helped raise the... | 1882 - 1930 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Hitchcock, George |
George
Hitchcock (1850–1913) was an American artist, born in Providence, Rhode
Island.
Hitchcock
graduated from the University of Manitoba, and from Harvard Law School in 1874.
He then turned his attention to art and became a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and
Jules-Joseph Lefebvre in Paris.
He
attracted notice in the Paris Salon of 1885 with his... | 1850 - 1913 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
