Artists

Edward Lamson Henry (January 12, 1841 – May 9, 1919), commonly known as E.L. Henry, was an American genre painter, born in Charleston, South Carolina. Early life Though born in Charleston, by age seven his parents had died and Henry moved to live with cousins in New York City. He began studying painting, there and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine...

Harry Hambro Howe was a marine artist who was born in Buckfield, Maine on August 16, 1886.  Howe came from a family of artists.  Both his grandfather, H. Howe, and his father, Captain T. Bailey Howe, were artists.  T. Bailey Howe taught his son, Harry, how to paint.  T. Bailey Howe was master of the Nantucket whaler, the Isabella.  Harry H. Howe...

Aldro Thompson Hibbard (August 25, 1886 - November 12, 1972) was a prominent American plein air painter. He was born in Falmouth, MA, but lived most of his life in Rockport, MA. His depictions of snowy landscapes, particularly in Vermont are highly regarded. Hibbard worked in oil; watercolor just couldn't be used in January & February in the...

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...

Little is know about George Frank Higgins, but his work suggests an accomplished artist.  Higgins exhibited at the Boston Art Club during the years 1873 to 1891.   He also exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum and Leonard's Auction Rooms.  In a review of Higgins's work that appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript of March 18, 1874, the author noted...

William Michael Harnett (August 10, 1848 – October 29, 1892) was an Irish-American painter known for his trompe l'oeil still lifes of ordinary objects. Early life Harnett was born in Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland during the time of the potato famine. Shortly after his birth his family emigrated to America, settling in Philadelphia. Becoming a...

Helen Hyde (April 6, 1868 - May 13, 1919) was an American etcher and engraver. She is best known for her color etching process and woodblock prints reflecting Japanese women and children characterizations. Life Born in Lima, New York, Hyde spent her adolescent years in California. Her art education began at the age of twelve when she studied for...

Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943) was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. Early life and education Hartley was born in Lewiston, Maine,[1] where his English parents had settled. He was the youngest of nine children.[2] His mother died when he was eight, and his father remarried four years later to Martha...

Hennessy spent the summer months in Normandy where he had a residence close to the port of Honfleur. A school of painting, based in Saint Siméon’s Inn, was already well established there. Corot, Isabey and Huet were amongst the first painters of the group. Boudin, who was born there, invited Courbet, Jongkind and Monet to join them. It was at...

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....

Thomas Hicks  (b Newtown, PA, 18 Oct 1823; d Trenton Falls, NY, 8 Oct 1890). Cousin of (1) Edward Hicks. After being apprenticed (c. 1835–9) in the sign-painting shop of his cousin, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (1839–40) and at the National Academy of Design in New York (1840–44). He then sketched...

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...

Ernest Haskell was born in Woodstock, Connecticut. In 1897 he left to study in Paris, returning to New York in 1899 and supporting himself with portrait work and poster design. The mountain lake in Ernest Haskell's etching The Sylvan Sea was one of many different locales--from California to Florida to Maine--he depicted in his work. In addition to...

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...

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...

The attribution to Salome Hensel and date (1823) of the National Gallery's To the Memory of the Benevolent Howard (1971.83.22), an unsigned theorem painting, are based on a label that was once afixed to the reverse. It reads: "This painting was done in 1823 by Salome Hensel eldest daughter of George and Catherine Noon Hensel. Salome was afterwards...

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...

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...

Grace Carpenter Hudson (1865 - 1937) was an American painter. She was nationally known during her lifetime for a numbered series of more than 684 portraits of the local Pomo Indians. She painted the first, "National Thorn", after her marriage in 1891, and the last in 1935. Early life Grace Carpenter was born in Potter Valley, California. Her...

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...

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...

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...

William Frederick de Haas’s coastal scenes put forward a pictorial language of serenity, silence, and solitude. Born in Holland, de Haas studied at The Hague and moved to the United States at the age of twenty-four. Armed with the precepts of Dutch painting, he turned his attention to the American coast. He worked in New York’s Tenth Street...

Edward Hicks (April 4, 1780 – August 23, 1849) was an American folk painter, a distinguished minister of the Society of Friends, and he also became a Quaker icon because of his paintings. Life and career Early life Edward Hicks was born in his grandfather's mansion at Attleboro (now Langhorne), in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His parents were...

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...

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...

Martin Johnson Heade (August 11, 1819 – September 4, 1904) was a prolific American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, portraits of tropical birds, and still lifes. His painting style and subject matter, while derived from the romanticism of the time, is regarded by art historians as a significant departure from that of his...

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...

Hermann Ottomar Herzog (November 15, 1832[1] – February 6, 1932) was a prominent nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and American artist, primarily known for his landscapes. He was born in Bremen, Germany and entered the Düsseldorf Academy at age seventeen. Herzog achieved early commercial success, allowing him to travel widely and...

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,...

Robert Havell, Jr. (Nov. 25, 1793 - Nov. 11, 1878) was the principal engraver of Audubon's Birds of America, perhaps the most significant natural history publication of all time. His aquatint engraving of all but the first ten plates of John James Audubon's Birds of America is now recognized as a significant artistic achievement in its own right...

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...

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...

Robert Henri (25 June 1865 – 12 July 1929) was an American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School in art. Early life Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio to Theresa Gatewood Cozad of Malden, Virginia and John Jackson Cozad, a gambler and real estate developer. Henri had a brother, Johnny, and...