Artists
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Haberle, John | ![]()
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... | 1856 - 1933 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
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 |
Harvey, George Wainwright | 1855 - 1920 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
Hunten, F. G. W. | Active ca. 1850 | 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 |
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 |