Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton, Hamilton | 1847 - 1928 | 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 |
| Hill, Edward | Edward Hill (December 9, 1843 – August 27, 1923) was a prolific artist as well as a published poet, songwriter, and newspaper correspondent. His paintings include White Mountain landscapes, southern genre scenes, still lifes, portraits, American Indians, European attractions, and the scenery of the American West.
Early life
Hill was born in the Union... | 1843 - 1923 | Anonymous | 12/08/2012 |
| Henry, Edward Lamson |
Edward Lamson Henry (January 12, 1841 – May 9, 1919), commonly known as E.L. Henry, was an American genre painter, born in Charleston, South Carolina.
Early life
Though born in Charleston, by age seven his parents had died and Henry moved to live with cousins in New York City. He began studying painting, there and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine... | 1841 - 1919 | Anonymous | 01/02/2013 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
