Artists
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Hildebrandt, Cornelia Ellis | 1876 - 1962 | Anonymous | 03/20/2012 | |
Hill, Edward | ![]() Edward Hill (December 9, 1843 – August 27, 1923) was a prolific artist as well as a published poet, songwriter, and newspaper correspondent. His paintings include White Mountain landscapes, southern genre scenes, still lifes, portraits, American Indians, European attractions, and the scenery of the American West.
Early life
Hill was born in the Union... | 1843 - 1923 | Anonymous | 12/08/2012 |
Hilliard, William Henry | ![]() An accomplished landscape, still-life, and portrait painter, William Henry Hilliard was born in Auburn, New York in 1836. By the 1860's, Hilliard was well known among Indian artists, residing in Madison. He left for New York in 1876, subsequently moving to Boston and finally settling in Washington, DC.
He studied in New York City and also abroad... | 1836 - 1905 | Anonymous | 12/08/2012 |
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 |
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 |
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 William | ![]()
John
William Hill or often J.W. Hill (1812–1879) was a British born American
artist working in watercolor, gouache, lithography, and engraving. Hill's work focussed primarily upon natural subjects including
landscapes, still lifes, and ornithological and zoological
subjects. In the 1850s, influenced by John Ruskin and Hill's association... | 1812 - 1879 | 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 |
Hills, Laura Coombs | 1859 - 1952 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
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 |