Artists

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Hope, Jamesnotes
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 - 1892Anonymous04/10/2012
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
Hubbard, Richard Williamnotes
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 - 1888Anonymous05/16/2012
Huntington, Danielnotes
Daniel Huntington (October 4, 1816 – April 19, 1906), American artist, was born in New York City, New York, the son of Benjamin Huntington, Jr. and Faith Trumbull Huntington; his paternal grandfather was Benjamin Huntington, delegate at the Second Continental Congress and First U.S. Representative from Connecticut. From 1833 to 1835 he studied at...
1816 - 1906Anonymous04/04/2012
Hoppin, Thomas F. 1816 - 1872Anonymous05/16/2012
Hamlin, Jr., Amos C. 1814 -  1872Anonymous04/10/2012
Hinckley, Thomas Hewes 1813 - 1896Anonymous05/16/2012
Healy, George P.A.notes
George Peter Alexander Healy (July 15, 1813 - June 24, 1894) was an American painter born in Boston, Massachusetts. Going to Europe in 1835 Healy studied under Baron Gros in Paris and in Rome. He received a third-class medal in Paris in 1840, and one of the second class in 1855, when he exhibited his "Franklin urging the claims of the American...
1813 - 1894Anonymous05/16/2012
Hill, John Williamnotes
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 -  1879Anonymous05/16/2012
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
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