Artists
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Ordway, Alfred T. | ![]()
Alfred T.
Ordway (1821–1897) was an American landscape and portrait painter, and
one of the founding fathers of the Boston Art Club.[1]
Early years
Alfred was
born in Roxbury, Massachusetts to mother Currier, and father Thomas Ordway on
March 9, 1821. With his father being the cities' clerk, Alfred spent the
majority of his childhood in Lowell,... | 1821 - 1897 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
Osgood, Charles | ![]()
Charles
Osgood was born in Salem, MA on February 24, 1809. It is not known from whom Osgood
received his training, but he made his living as a portraitist until 1863. It can be conjectured that the advent of
the daguerreotype and the photograph created serious inroads on the business of
the average portraitist and caused Osgood and others to... | 1809 - 1890 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
Otis, Bass | ![]()
Bass Otis
(July 17, 1784 - November 3, 1861), was an early
American artist, inventor, and portrait painter. He painted hundreds of
portraits including many of the best known Americans of his day, and produced
the first American lithograph in 1819.
Life and work
Otis was
born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, the son of Josiah Otis, a... | 1784 - 1861 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
Ogilvie, John Clinton | 1838 - 1900 | Anonymous | 11/14/2012 | |
Osthaus, Edmund Henry | ![]()
Edmund Henry Osthaus was born in Hildesheim, Germany in 1858. He attended the local Gymnasium and went on to study at the Royal Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf. He was a student of or influenced by a number of artists including Andreas Müller (1831-1901), Eduard von Gebhardt (1838-1925), Ernst Deger (1809-1885) and Christian Kröner/Kroener... | 1858 - 1928 | Anonymous | 01/02/2013 |
Ochtman, Leonard | ![]() Leonard Ochtman (October 21, 1854–1935) was an American Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes. He was a founding member of the Cos Cob Art Colony and the Greenwich Society of Artists.
Biography and career
He was born in Zonnemaire, Netherlands as the son of a decorative painter. His family moved to Albany, New York in 1866. Starting at... | 1854 - 1934 | Anonymous | 03/07/2013 |
Onderdonk, Robert Jenkins | ![]()
Robert Jenkins Onderdonk (January 16, 1852[2] – July 2, 1917) was an American painter and art teacher, born in Catonsville, Maryland.[1] An important artist in the first stage of Texas art,[3] he was a long-time art teacher in San Antonio and Dallas, where he formed art associations and leagues; for his contributions to the culture of art and... | 1852 - 1917 | Anonymous | 03/10/2013 |
Ochtman, Mina Fonda | ![]() Mina Fonda Ochtman (1862–1924) was an American Impressionist painter noted for her watercolors of landscapes and coastal scenes. She was wife of the artist Leonard Ochtman, and an active member of the Cos Cob Art Colony in in Greenwich, Connecticut the early 20th century.[1]
Biography and Career
Mina Fonda was born in Laconia, New Hampshire in 1862.... | 1862 - 1924 | Anonymous | 04/15/2013 |