Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Hunten, F. G. W. | Active ca. 1850 | 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 |
Hathaway, Rufus | 1770 - 1822 | 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 |
Hicks, Edward |
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... | 1780 - 1849 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Howell, Parmenas | 1784 - 1808 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
Hudson Jr., William | 1787 - after 1858 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
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 |
Howard, Joseph | 1789 - 1857 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
Hall, Anne | 1792 - 1863 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 | |
Harding, Chester |
Chester
Harding (September 1, 1792 – April 1, 1866) was an American portrait
painter.
Biography
Harding was
born at Conway, Massachusetts. Brought up in the wilderness of New York state,
he was a lad of robust physique, standing over 6 feet 3 inches. His family
removed to Caledonia, New York, when he was fourteen years old, and he was
early... | 1792 - 1866 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Havell, Robert |
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... | 1793 - 1878 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
Hite, George Harrison | 1807 - 1880 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
Hancock, Nathaniel | Died 1809 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
Hubard, William James | 1809 - 1862 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
Huge, Jurgan Frederick |
Jurgan
Frederick Huge was born in Hamburg in 1809. Of the approximately fifty known
examples of his work, most are renderings of sailing and steam vessels, which
recall the artist's youth as a seaman. Huge (at that time spelling his given
names Jurgen Friedrich) came to America as a young
man. By 1830 he was established as the owner of a store in... | 1809 - 1878 | Alexander Lusher | 05/14/2012 |
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 |
Healy, George P.A. |
George
Peter Alexander Healy (July 15, 1813 - June 24, 1894) was an American painter
born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Going to Europe
in 1835 Healy studied under Baron Gros in Paris and in Rome. He received a
third-class medal in Paris in 1840, and one of the second class in 1855, when
he exhibited his "Franklin urging the claims of the American... | 1813 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Hinckley, Thomas Hewes | 1813 - 1896 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
Hamlin, Jr., Amos C. | 1814 - 1872 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 | |
Hoppin, Thomas F. | 1816 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
Huntington, Daniel |
Daniel
Huntington (October 4, 1816 – April 19, 1906), American artist, was born
in New York City, New York, the son of Benjamin Huntington, Jr. and Faith
Trumbull Huntington; his paternal grandfather was Benjamin Huntington, delegate
at the Second Continental Congress and First U.S. Representative from
Connecticut. From 1833 to 1835 he studied at... | 1816 - 1906 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Hubbard, Richard William |
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 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Humphreys, Charles S. |
Charles
Spencer Humphreys was born on 18 February 1818 in Moorestown, New Jersey. He
was one of seven children of Joshua Humphreys and Abigail Cox. By the age of
nineteen Humphreys was living in Camden, New Jersey, where on 10 May 1837 he
placed the following advertisement in the Camden Mail and General Advertiser:
"House, Sign and Ornamental... | 1818 - 1880 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
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 |
Heade, Martin Johnson |
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... | 1819 - 1904 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Hamilton, James |
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 - 1878 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Hofmann, Charles C. |
Charles C. Hofmann was born in Germany around 1820, and immigrated to America in 1860, arriving in the port of New York. In subsequent years he lived in several communities along Pennsylvania's Schuylkill River, sometimes as a resident/patient of the public poorhouses. He is the best-known of the three so-called "Pennsylvania Almshouse Painters," the... | 1820 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
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 |
Hensel, Salome |
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... | Born 1823 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Hicks, Thomas |
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... | 1823 - 1890 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
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 |
Hunt, William Morris |
William Morris Hunt (March 31, 1824 – September 8, 1879), American painter, was born at Brattleboro, Vermont to Jane Maria (Leavitt) Hunt and Hon. Jonathan Hunt, who raised one of the preeminent families in American art. William Morris Hunt was the leading painter of mid-19th century Boston, Massachusetts.[1]
Life and career
Hunt's father's family,... | 1824 - 1879 | Anonymous | 08/28/2012 |
Hitchings, Henry | 1824 - 1902 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 | |
Hall, George Henry |
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 - 1913 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Hetzel, George |
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 - 1899 | 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 |
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 |
Hahn, William |
William
Hahn was born in Saxony, Germany in 1829. He studied at the Royal Academy of
Art in Dresden and the Dusseldorf Academy. Around 1870, Hahn met the artist
William Keith and moved with him first to Boston then San Francisco in 1872
where the two shared a studio. Hahn enjoyed tremendous success, taking extended
painting trips throughout... | 1829 - 1887 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Hidley, Joseph H. |
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 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Hays, William Jacob |
William
Jacob Hays spent most of his life in New York City but occasionally ventured to
the Adirondack Mountains of New York, Nova Scotia, and England on search for
subjects to paint. He studied art with John Ruebens
Smith, an important topographer and lithographer, and exhibited at the American
Art Union in 1848. His most inspirational and... | 1830 - 1875 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Hodgdon, Sylvester Phelps | Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon studied with Benjamin Champney in Boston and later with Samuel Rouse in New York City. In the early 1850s he worked as a lithographer for L. H. Bradford in Boston, during which time he executed views of the Flume and the Old Man of the Mountain.
For thirty years he kept a studio in the Tremont Studio Building and he lived at... | 1830 - 1906 | Anonymous | 12/10/2012 |
Haas, William Frederick De |
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... | 1830 - 1880 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Herzog, Herman |
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... | 1831 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Haseltine, William Stanley |
William
Stanley Haseltine (June 11, 1835-February 3, 1900)
was an American painter and draftsman who was
associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting, the Hudson River School
and Luminism.
Early life and education
Born in
Philadelphia to John Haseltine, a successful
businessman, and Elizabeth Shinn Haseltine, an
amateur landscape painter,... | 1835 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Holdredge, Ransome Gillet |
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 - 1899 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
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 |
Homer, Winslow |
Winslow
Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape
painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered
one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in
American art.
Largely
self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator.[1]... | 1836 - 1910 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
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 |
Hennessy, William John |
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... | 1839 - 1917 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |