Artists
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Miller, Alfred Jacob | ![]()
Alfred
Jacob Miller (January 2, 1810 – June 26, 1874) was an American painter
and sketcher best known for his paintings concerning the northwestern United
States.
Life
Miller was
born in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended the local schools and hoped to become
a painter. He received his first lessons in art from Thomas Sully. After... | 1810 - 1874 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Miller, George M. | ![]()
George M.
Miller was a stone-cutter, potter, and sculptor who often "modeled"
in wax. Among biographical sources there is disagreement about whether his
birthplace was Scotland or Germany, and about the original spelling of his last
name: Muller, Müller, or Miler. Nothing is known
about his family, education, or date of birth.
Miller had
come to... | Died 1819 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Miller, William Rickarby | ![]()
William was the son of the English landscape painter, Joseph Miller and most likely studied under him in England. In the winter of 1844, William immigrated to America and settled in New York City. He initially worked as a portraitist, but then began traveling across the Eastern U.S. to discover new landscape subjects. Throughout Miller’s prolific... | 1818 - 1893 | Anonymous | 03/04/2013 |
Millet, Francis Davis | ![]()
Francis
Davis Millet (November 3, 1846 - April 15, 1912) was an American painter,
sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15,
1912.
Early life
Francis
Davis Millet was born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. At age sixteen, Millet
entered the Massachusetts regiment, first as a drummer boy and then a... | 1846 - 1912 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Moeller, Louis Charles | ![]()
Charles
Louis Moeller specialized in interior genre scenes, or scenes of everyday life,
in which abundant, meticulously detailed objects and furnishings vie for
interest with lively dramatic anecdote played out by character types. Moeller
was a New York City native and received his first training in art from his
father, a German immigrant... | 1855 - 1930 | Anonymous | 06/10/2012 |
Mohrmann, John Henry | ![]()
John Henry Mohrmann ( Estebrügge
( Germany ), 16 December 1857 - Bloomsbury ( Canada ), 22 February 1916 ) was
an American-Belgian-Canadian painter , specializing in ship portraits.
Genealogy
John Henry Mohrmann, born Johann Hinrich in Estebrügge Mohrmann, near Hannover (Germany). He was the son of Henry Mohrmann and Anna Meyer, the
family... | 1857 - 1916 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
Mora, Francis Luis | ![]()
F. Luis Mora, also known as Francis Luis Mora (July 27, 1874 - June 5, 1940), was an Hispanic American figural painter. Mora worked in watercolor, oils and tempera. He produced drawings in pen and ink, and graphite; and etchings and monotypes. He is known for his paintings and drawings depicting American life in the early 20th century; Spanish life... | 1874 - 1940 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Moran, Edward | ![]()
Edward
Moran (19 Aug. 1829-9 June 1901), painter, was born in Bolton, Lancashire,
England, the son of Thomas Moran and Mary Higson, home handloom weavers. Edward
was the elder brother of the painters Peter, John, and Thomas Moran. Moran
joined his parents working at the handloom at an early age. The Moran parents,
like other home textile workers of... | 1829 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/13/2012 |
Mulhaupt, Frederick J. | ![]()
Frederick Mulhaupt was born in Rockport, Missouri, March 28, 1871 the
son of Jacob Mulhaupt of Baden and Margeret Liebig of Hesse-Darmstadt,
Germany. He grew up in the small town of Kiowa on the southern border of
Kansas, a wild unsettle Indian territory. The majority
of his professional career was spent in NYC, Boston and East Gloucester, MA.... | 1871 - 1938 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
Muller, Fritz | ![]()
Fritz Müller was born in 1814 in Blumenthal, a small town on
the Weser River in northern Germany. Trained as a seaman, Müller
became a sea captain and lived in neighboring Bremen after 1841. By that time
he apparently was married to a native of Hildenbrock,
a town near Dusseldorf. In 1848 Müller left
Bremen to give instruction in navigational... | 1814 - 1861 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |