Artists
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Hicks, Thomas | ![]()
Thomas Hicks (b
Newtown, PA, 18 Oct 1823; d Trenton Falls, NY, 8 Oct 1890). Cousin
of (1) Edward Hicks. After being apprenticed (c. 1835–9) in the
sign-painting shop of his cousin, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts in Philadelphia (1839–40) and at the National Academy of Design
in New York (1840–44). He then sketched... | 1823 - 1890 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Hart, William | ![]()
William
Hart (March 31, 1823 – June 17, 1894), was a
Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter, and Hudson River School
artist. His younger brother, James McDougal Hart, was also a Hudson River School
artist, and the two painted similar subjects. He studied under Jules-Joseph
Lefebvre.
Biography
Hart was
born in Paisley, Scotland, and... | 1823 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
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 |
Hitchings, Henry | 1824 - 1902 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 | |
Hall, George Henry | ![]()
George
Henry Hall was American painter of Academic Realism and Hudson River Style.
George
Henry Hall was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. His father moved the family
to Boston when George was four years old.
George
Henry Hall began his career as an artist at the age of 16. In 1849 he traveled
with his friend Eastman Johnson to Düsseldorf,... | 1825 - 1913 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Hetzel, George | ![]()
Realistic
painter, George Hetzel is considered one of Pennsylvania's most significant
landscape, portrait, and still-life painters of the nineteenth century.
He was born
in Hangviller, a small village in the province of Alsace, France, in 1826.
Hetzels father decided that America offered unparalleled opportunities for a
better life, however, and... | 1826 - 1899 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Hart, James McDougal | ![]()
James
McDougal Hart (May 10, 1828 – October 24, 1901),
was a Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter of the Hudson River
School. His older brother, William Hart, was also a Hudson River School artist,
and the two painted similar subjects.
Hart was
born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, and was taken to America with his family in early
youth.... | 1828 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Hill, Thomas | ![]()
Thomas Hill
(September 11, 1829 – June 30, 1908) was an American artist of the 19th
century. He produced many fine paintings of the California landscape, in
particular of the Yosemite Valley, as well as the White Mountains of New
Hampshire.
Biography
Thomas Hill
was born in England on September 11, 1829. At the age of 15, he emigrated to the... | 1829 - 1908 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Hahn, William | ![]()
William
Hahn was born in Saxony, Germany in 1829. He studied at the Royal Academy of
Art in Dresden and the Dusseldorf Academy. Around 1870, Hahn met the artist
William Keith and moved with him first to Boston then San Francisco in 1872
where the two shared a studio. Hahn enjoyed tremendous success, taking extended
painting trips throughout... | 1829 - 1887 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Hidley, Joseph H. | ![]()
Joseph
Henry Hidley was born 23 March 1830 in Greenbush, the
part that later became North Greenbush, Rensselaer County, NY. He was baptised 11 July 1830 at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
in the village of West Sand Lake, in the town of Sand
Lake, Rensselaer County. Joseph's family had close ties to this church through
several generations.
His... | 1830 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |