Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horton, William Samuel | 
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 - 1936 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Hovenden, Thomas |
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 - 1895 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
| Howard, Joseph | 1789 - 1857 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
| Hudson, Grace Carpenter |
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 - 1937 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Hyde, Helen |
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 - 1919 | Anonymous | 08/28/2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
