Artists
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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 |
Hopkins, Milton W. | ![]()
Milton W.
Hopkins, the son of Hezekiah and Eunice Hubbell Hopkins, was born on 1 August
1789 in Harwinton, Connecticut. In 1800 the family moved to Clinton, New York.
In 1807 he returned to Connecticut, soon marrying Abigail Pollard of Guilford,
with whom he had a child. After Abigail's death in 1817, he wed Almira Adkins and moved to Evans Mill,... | 1789 - 1844 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
Hopkinson, Charles | 1869 - 1962 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 | |
Hopper, Edward | ![]() Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern... | 1882 - 1967 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Hoppin, Thomas F. | 1816 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
Horton, William Samuel | ![]()
A critic
for the Saturday Review (1928) wrote, "Mr. Horton has created a new world
on the beaches and one sees nothing in these animated scenes of customary
bathing pictures. T'were unmannerly to compare his
figures with paintings of Cézanne, for no robust, nature-loving
Englishman ever contemplated those limbs of Cézanne figures with any
real... | 1865 - 1936 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Hotchkiss, Thomas Hiram | ![]() Little is known about Thomas H. Hotchkiss's educational background. In 1853 Hotchkiss exhibited for the first time at the Rochester, New York, studio of Henry Johnson Brent. He soon relocated to New York City and began exhibiting landscape work at the National Academy of Design in 1856, and works within the circle of artists surrounding Asher B.... | c.1834 - 1869 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 |
Hovenden, Thomas | ![]()
Thomas Hovenden (December 28, 1840 – August 14, 1895), was an Irish-American artist and teacher. He painted
realistic quiet family scenes, narrative subjects and often depicted African
Americans.
Hovenden
was born in Dunmanway, Co. Cork, Ireland. His parents
died at the time of the potato famine and he was placed in an orphanage at the
age of... | 1840 - 1895 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
Howard, Hugh Huntington | 1860 - 1927 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
Howard, Joseph | 1789 - 1857 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |