A little-known artist of the 19th century, Frank Waller was born June 12, 1842 in New York City. He was a painter, educator, and etcher who lived in Morristown, New Jersey during the latter part of his life. At 15 years of age, Waller studied drawing at the Free Academy of the City of New York, now known as the City College of New York, which he...

George Cooke (1793–1849) was an itinerant United States painter who specialized in portrait and landscape paintings and was one of the South's best known painters of the mid nineteenth century.[1] His primary patron was the industrialist Daniel Pratt, who built a gallery in Prattville, Alabama solely to house Cooke's paintings.[1] Early career...

George Henry Hall was American painter of Academic Realism and Hudson River Style. George Henry Hall was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. His father moved the family to Boston when George was four years old. George Henry Hall began his career as an artist at the age of 16. In 1849 he traveled with his friend Eastman Johnson to Düsseldorf,...