Artists
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Melchers, Gari | ![]()
Gari
Melchers was born Julius Garibaldi (after the Italian patriot) Melchers in
Detroit on 11 August 1860, the son of a German immigrant Julius Theodore
Melchers and his wife Marie Bangetor. The senior
Melchers was himself an artist, having been trained in Paris as a sculptor. He
contributed decorations to the Crystal Palace in London, created... | 1860 - 1932 | Anonymous | 12/10/2012 |
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 |
Mead, F. A. | Active ca. 1870 | Anonymous | 12/24/2012 | |
Morse, Samuel F.B. | ![]()
Samuel
Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American
contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on
European telegraphs, co-inventor of the Morse code, and an accomplished
painter.
Birth and education
Samuel F.B.
Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child of the pastor Jedidiah... | 1791 - 1872 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
Mowbray, H. Siddons | ![]()
Henry
Siddons Mowbray (August 5, 1858 – 1928) was an American artist.
Biography
He was born
of English parents at Alexandria, Egypt. Left an orphan, he was taken to
America by an uncle, who settled at North Adams, Massachusetts. After a year at
the United States Military Academy at West Point, he went to Paris and entered
the atelier of Leon... | 1858 - 1928 | Anonymous | 01/02/2013 |
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 |