Artists

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Hofmann, Charles C.notes
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 - 1882Anonymous05/18/2012
Hopkins, Milton W.notes
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 - 1844Anonymous04/21/2012
Horton, William Samuelnotes
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 - 1936Anonymous05/16/2012
Hovenden, Thomasnotes
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 - 1895Anonymous04/08/2012
Hudson, Grace Carpenternotes
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...
1865 - 1937Anonymous05/16/2012
Huge, Jurgan Fredericknotes
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 - 1878Alexander Lusher05/14/2012
Humphreys, Charles S.notes
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 - 1880Anonymous05/16/2012
Hunt, William Morrisnotes
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 - 1879Anonymous08/28/2012
Hyde, Helennotes
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...
1868 - 1919Anonymous08/28/2012
Hensel, Salomenotes
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 1823Anonymous05/16/2012
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