Artists

Theodore Earl Butler, (1861–1936) an American impressionist painter, he was born in Columbus, Ohio and died in Giverny, France, May 2, 1936. Biography Theodore studied at Marietta College in Ohio and graduated in 1882. He studied at the Art Students League with James Carroll Beckwith, Kenyon Cox and J. Alden Weir, and under William Merritt...

Charles Schreyvogel (January 4, 1861-January 27, 1912) was a painter of Western subject matter in the days of the disappearing frontier. Schreyvogel was especially interested in military life. He spent most of his life as an impoverished artist. He suddenly became recognized and earned what seemed like overnight fame. He was born in New York City....

Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 – December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U. S. Cavalry. Early...

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...

Elizabeth Nourse (b. October 26, 1859 – October 8, 1938) was a portrait and landscape painter born in Cincinnati, Ohio in the Mt. Healthy area. She also was familiar with working with watercolors, painting furniture and sculpting. Biography Born to the Catholic household of Caleb Elijah Nourse and Elizabeth LeBreton Rogers Nourse on October 26,...

Karl Witkowski was an American artist working in the later part of the 19th century.  Karl received his training in the studio of Jan Matejko (1838-1893) and like his mentor, specialized in genre and portrait painting. Witkowski, like his contemporary J.G. Brown (1831 – 1913), focused his attention on the young shoeshine and paper boys working...

Frederick Childe Hassam (October 17, 1859 – August 27, 1935) was a prolific American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, dealers, and museums. He produced over 3,000 paintings, watercolors,...

Born in Austria, John Fery earned a strong reputation for dramatic paintings of western mountain landscape in the United States.  Glacier National Park in northwest Montana was a popular subject for him. He was raised in a prominent, wealthy family that lived on an estate about nineteen miles northeast of Salzburg.  His mother was Hungarian, and...

Otto Stark (1859–1926) was an American Impressionist painter who was considered to be a member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana artists. Stark's work most clearly showed the influence of Impressionism, and he often featured children in his work. He began his career as a commercial woodcarver's apprentice in Indianapolis until an ankle injury...

Henry Ward Ranger (January 29, 1858 – November 7, 1916 ), American artist, was born in western New York State. He became a prominent landscape and marine painter, much of his work being done in the Netherlands, and showing the influence of the modern Dutch school. He became a National Academician (1906), and a member of the American Water Color...

Joseph Rodefer DeCamp was a successful portrait painter; he also created exquisite interior views with a soft-edged luminosity, as well as landscapes characterized by the broken brushwork, bright light and color, and contemporary subjects of impressionism. DeCamp began his art studies as a teenager at the McMicken School of Design in his native...

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...

Maurice Brazil Prendergast (October 10, 1858 – February 1, 1924) was an American Post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolor, and monotype. He exhibited as a member of The Eight, though the delicacy of his compositions and mosaic-like beauty of his style differed from the philosophy of the group. Biography Maurice Prendergast and...

Daniel Francois Santry was born in Boston, MA in 1858.  He studied with Boulanger and Lefebvre.  He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1886 and at the Boston Art Club from 1889 to 1891.  The Boston Art Club exhibition records record his address as 12 West Street, Boston, MA.  Painting titles that he exhibited do not describe White Mountain...

Robert William Vonnoh (September 17, 1858 – 1933) was an American Impressionist painter known for his portraits and landscapes. He traveled extensively between the East Coast and France, more specifically the artists colony Grez-sur-Loing. He studied in Paris at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. He taught at...

Son of a French mother and an American father, Eugene Vail maintained strong ties with both of these countries throughout his life. He was born 29 September 1857 in St. Servan, France and, as a young man, studied both in Paris and New York. Although he showed an early aptitude and enthusiasm for art, his father required that he receive a practical...

Bruce Crane (1857– October 30, 1937, Bronxville, New York) was an American painter. He joined the Lyme Art Colony in the early 1900s. His most active period, though, came after 1920, when for more than a decade he did oil sketches of woods, meadows, and hills. He developed into a Tonalist painter under the influence of Jean Charles Cazin at...

Throughout a varied career that embraced mural painting and interior design as well as easel painting, Francis Coates Jones pursued the perennial theme of women and children in intimate settings. Jones was born in Baltimore, son of a successful businessman. Although his older brother, Hugh Bolton Jones (1848–1927), was a landscape painter,...

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...

Julian Ruggles Seavey was one of the most prestigious artists to have called Hamilton his home. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 24, 1857 and studied art in New York, Paris, Rome, and Germany before coming to Hamilton in 1879. During the time he lived here, Seavey was a major force in promoting local art and culture. Seavey was a...

A leading figure in New York’s turn-of-the-century art establishment, Harry Watrous had a successful career as a painter and administrator. After training in the French academic mode at the Academie Julian in Paris, Watrous returned to New York and won recognition for his stylized female portraits, elegant still lifes, and enchanting...

Douglas Volk, named Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk (23 February 1856 - 1935)[1] was an American portrait and landscape painter. He helped establish the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. After 1904 he and his wife Marion created an artists' retreat at their family home, Hewnoaks, in Maine. She became active in the production of woolen textiles and rugs...

John White Alexander (7 October 1856 – 31 May 1915) was an American portrait, figure, and decorative painter and illustrator. Biography Alexander was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now a part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Orphaned in infancy, he was reared by his grandparents and at the age of 12 became a telegraph boy in Pittsburgh. His...

Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr. (March 8, 1856 – November 6, 1937) was an American Impressionist painter, perhaps most renowned for his architectural paintings, especially of skyscrapers in New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. An avid traveler, he was also known for his paintings of European and Asian landmarks, as well as natural landscapes,...

John Haberle was born in 1856 in New Haven, Connecticut, to Swiss immigrant parents. At age fourteen he left school to apprentice for a bookplate designer and engraver, where he learned the precision of hand-and-eye coordination necessary for detailed representation. He also worked at Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History, painting...

Charles Grant Beauregard (* 1856 in Montreal , † 1919 in Troy) was an American painter. Life and Work Even as a young man wandered from Beauregard in the State of New York and lived there the majority of his life in Troy, where he worked as a teacher at the Emma Willard Private School. While he initially dealt with portraiture, he later turned to...

William Wallace Denslow (5 May 1856 – 27 May 1915) – usually credited as W. W. Denslow – was an illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with author L. Frank Baum, especially his illustrations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.[1] Denslow was an editorial cartoonist with a strong interest in politics, which has fueled...

Gilbert William Gaul (1855–1919), military and historical painter and illustrator. Biography Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on March 31, 1855 to George W. and Cornelia A. (Gilbert) Gaul, he attended school in Newark, and at the Claverack Military Academy. In New York, he began studying art under L. E. Wilmarth at the National Academy of...

A famous French and American flower painter, Paul de Longpre was the most significant watercolor specialist to arrive in Los Angeles in the late 19th century and became the city's first major still-life painter. It is likely he was the first southern California painter to earn a major national reputation. He was born in Lyons, France, where he was...

Julius LeBlanc Stewart (September 6, 1855, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - January 5, 1919, Paris, France), was an American artist who spent his career in Paris. A contemporary of fellow expatriate painter John Singer Sargent, Stewart was nicknamed "the Parisian from Philadelphia."[1] His father, the sugar millionaire William Hood Stewart, moved the...