Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hashagen, A. | 
Nothing is
known about this artist, except the name A. HASHAGEN and the date MAY 1847,
both part of the inscription on the National Gallery's painting Ship
"Arkansas" Leaving Havana (1956.13.4). Some Hashagens
emigrated to America from the vicinity of Bremen,
Germany, in the nineteenth century, but no connection has been made between
them and the... | Born 1847 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| Hawthorne, Charles Webster |
Charles
Webster Hawthorne (January 8, 1872 – November 29, 1930) was an American
portrait and genre painter and a noted teacher who founded the Cape Cod School
of Art in 1899.
He was born
in Lodi, Illinois[1] and his parents returned to
Maine, raising him in the state where Charles' father was born. At age 18, he
went to New York, working as an... | 1872 - 1930 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Hirschberg, Carl |
Carl
Hirschberg (1854-1923) was a prominent figure in the American art movement who
founded the Salmagundi Club and was also the organizers of the Student Arts
League. As a young man he studied in Paris. This beautiful and lyrical painting
depicts the Whippany River on one side and an anonymous landscape on the other.
| 1854 - 1923 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
