Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butman, Frederick A. | 
Frederick
A. Butman was born in Gardiner, Maine in 1820 and
also died there in 1871 while visiting his family. He was a landscape and figure painter
active from 1857 until his death.
He was listed in the San Francisco city directory from 1859 to 1871.
Butman
owned a drugstore in Gardiner until 1857 when he moved to San Francisco. From 1860... | 1820 - 1871 | Anonymous | 04/19/2012 |
| 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 |
| Clough, George Lafayette |
George
Lafayette Clough was born in 1824, in Auburn, New York, and was that city's
leading landscapist and most noted resident painter of the mid-century. His
mother was widowed shortly after his birth, and he was raised without paternal
influence. He had little formal education and was employed by the age of ten.
By age fifteen he had taken up... | 1824 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Beaman, Gamaliel Waldo |
As a young man, Beaman had a studio on Tremont Street in Boston. Although Beaman studied at the Lowell Institute and in Paris in the late 1870s, his preference was for a more rural lifestyle. He moved to Northfield, Massachusetts where he lived with a hermit atop the mountain back of Northfield village. In coming down to the village he passed... | 1852 - 1937 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
| Ferguson, Henry Augustus |
Born in 1845 in Glens Falls, New York, Ferguson was a landscape painter and highy energetic world traveler, both in years spent and distances covered, exploring exotic motifs for his paintings. Europe, Mexico, South America, Egypt, were some of his destinations, including the daunting Andes Mountains, which he traveled over a half dozen... | 1841 - 1926 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
