Little is known of Leganger except that he was active in both New York City and Boston.  He exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association between 1871 and 1882.  He also exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1891, giving his address as Newton Center, MA.  His work was represented at an important sale of paintings at Noyes and Blakeslee in...

Richard William Hubbard was a prominent member of the Hudson River School known for his luminous, delicately-painted landscapes. Born in Middletown, Connecticut, Hubbard attended Yale College before moving to New York City to pursue his painting career. He trained under Samuel F.B. Morse at New York University and spent two years in Europe studying...

Griggs was listed as an architect in the Boston City directory from 1848 to 1852 and as an artist from 1854 until his death. At the time of his death he was living at 63 Studio Building in Boston. The competency of his work strongly suggests that he had professional training, and it is believed that he studied under Bierstadt before Bierstadt was...

Thomas Chambers was born in London in 1808 and emigrated to the United States in 1832. A painter of both landscapes and marine scenes, Chambers did not confine his artistic subjects to views that he knew firsthand but made liberal use of both his imagination and popular engraved images. Chambers is known to have looked not only to the Englishman...

A member of the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited from 1846 to 1871, Boardman was labeled by the American Art Union Bulletin of 1848 as "very clever."  He was painting in Jackson, NH, as early as 1847.  He was a friend of George Inness. His White Mountain paintings were done in the period 1848 to 1858.  He painted both in the White...