Artists

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Hoppin, Thomas F. 1816 - 1872Anonymous05/16/2012
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
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
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
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
Heade, Martin Johnsonnotes
Martin Johnson Heade (August 11, 1819 – September 4, 1904) was a prolific American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, portraits of tropical birds, and still lifes. His painting style and subject matter, while derived from the romanticism of the time, is regarded by art historians as a significant departure from that of his...
1819 - 1904Anonymous05/16/2012
Hamilton, Jamesnotes
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 -  1878Anonymous05/18/2012
Hofmann, Charles C.notes
Charles C. Hofmann was born in Germany around 1820, and immigrated to America in 1860, arriving in the port of New York. In subsequent years he lived in several communities along Pennsylvania's Schuylkill River, sometimes as a resident/patient of the public poorhouses. He is the best-known of the three so-called "Pennsylvania Almshouse Painters," the...
1820 - 1882Anonymous05/18/2012
Hilling, Johnnotes
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 - 1894Anonymous05/16/2012
Hensel, Salomenotes
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 1823Anonymous05/16/2012
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