William Keith (November 18, 1838 – April 13, 1911) was a Scottish-American painter famous for his California landscapes. Early life Keith was born in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States in 1850. He lived in New York City, and became an apprentice wood engraver in 1856. He first traveled to the American West...

Frank Tenney Johnson (26 June 1874–1 January 1939) was a painter of the american west, and he popularized a style of painting cowboys which became known as "The Johnson Moonlight Technique". Somewhere on the Range is an example of Johnson's moonlight technique. To paint his paintings he used knives, fingers and brushes. Biography Early...

American painter of historical, literary and portrait subjects, Louis Lang was born in Wurtemberg, Germany into an artistic family. At the age of 16, he was already producing accomplished pastels. He began his art studies in Stuttgart and later worked in Paris before he immigrated to the United States in 1838. He settled in Philadelphia and from...

George Benjamin Luks, (August 13, 1867–October 29, 1933) was an American realist artist and illustrator. His vigorously painted genre paintings of urban subjects are examples of the Ashcan school in American art. Early life Luks was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to Central European immigrants. His father was a physician and his mother was...

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...

German born August Laux achieved a considerable reputation in the 1870s for his frescoes and decorative paintings, but switched to genre scenes and still lifes a decade later. His work, always traditional in style, was highly regarded in his day but forgotten soon after his death. He was born in the Pfalz area of the Rhineland in 1847 to...

While still in his middle teens, Richard Lorenz studied sculpture in Germany. Later he received an art scholarship (endowed by Franz Liszt) to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar, Germany to study drawing. While there, he twice received the school's highest award. Lorenz was recruited in Germany to come to America, and in the spring of...

Ernest Lawson (March 22, 1873 – December 18, 1939) was a Canadian-American painter and a member of The Eight, a group of artists which included the group's leaders Robert Henri, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Prendergast, George Luks, and William J. Glackens. Though Lawson mostly painted landscapes, he also did some...

No documents about A. A. Lamb or other paintings by him have been discovered. His sympathetic treatment of the subject of the National Gallery's painting Emancipation Proclamation (1955.11.10) suggests he was a Northerner, perhaps from New York, where he could have known the Henry K. Brown statue of George Washington used as a model for the figure...

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...

Henry John Van Lennep (AC 1837), a noted 19th-century Christian minister, missionary, writer and educator, was born in Smyrna (present-day Izmir, Turkey) in 1815. In 1830 he was sent to the United States for his education. He prepared for college at Mount Pleasant Institute, Amherst, Mass., and Hartford (Conn.) Grammar School. After graduating from...

Fritz Müller was born in 1814 in Blumenthal, a small town on the Weser River in northern Germany. Trained as a seaman, Müller became a sea captain and lived in neighboring Bremen after 1841. By that time he apparently was married to a native of Hildenbrock, a town near Dusseldorf. In 1848 Müller left Bremen to give instruction in navigational...

Born 1867, died ca. 1942. Painter, illustrator, and etcher, noted for her watercolor paintings of landscapes and flowers. Lived and exhibited in the Massachusetts area. Nellie Littlehale married Herman Daniel Umbstaetter in 1893. In 1916, she married again, to painter Hermann Dudley Murphy.

Nicola Marschall (1829 – 1917) was a German-American artist who supported the Confederate cause during the American Civil War. He designed the original Confederate flag, the Stars and Bars,[1] as well as the official grey uniform of the Confederate army.[2] Biography Marschall was born in St. Wendel, Germany in 1829 to a wealthy Prussian family...

Jerome Myers (March 20, 1867 - June 19, 1940) was a U.S. artist and writer. Born in Petersburg, Virginia and raised in Philadelphia, Trenton and Baltimore, he spent his adult life in New York City. Jerome worked briefly as an actor and scene painter, then studied art at Cooper Union and the Art Students League where his main teacher was George de...

Homer Dodge Martin (October 28, 1836 - February 2, 1897) was an American artist, particularly known for his landscapes. Biography Martin was born at Albany, New York. A pupil for a short time of William Hart, his earlier work was closely aligned with the Hudson River School. He was elected as associate of the National Academy of Design, New York,...

Jervis McEntee (July 14, 1828 – January 27, 1891) was an American painter of the Hudson River School. He is a somewhat lesser-known figure of the 19th century American art world, but was the close friend and traveling companion of several of the important Hudson River School artists. Aside from his paintings, McEntee's detailed journals are an...

Willard Leroy Metcalf (July 1, 1858 – March 9, 1925) was an American artist born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attended Académie Julian, Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration, he became prominent as a landscape painter. He was one of the Ten American Painters who in...

Charles Frederick William Mielatz was born in Bredding, Germany in 1864. He arrived in this country as a young boy and studied at the Chicago School of Design. Mostly self-taught, his first prints were large New England landscapes reminiscent of the painter- etcher school of American art. In 1889 he was invited by the Iconofiles Society to produce a...

Shepard Alonzo Mount was born in 1804 in the Long Island village of Setauket, one of five children. His younger brother William Sidney Mount would become one of the most acclaimed artists of his age. With Mount’s father’s death in 1814, his mother moved the family to the parental farm in Stony Brook. Shepard began his professional career...

Edward Greene Malbone was one of the leading miniaturist painters in early American art. Malbone was born illegitimate and went by the name “Greene,” his mothers name for most of his life until the court mandated that he could use his fathers’ name, “Malbone.” Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Malbone cultivated a love for the arts as a...

Born January 1, 1854, in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. His father was an architect. Moved with the family to Columbus, Ohio, 1864. Studied and associated with artists John H. Witt, Frederick S. Church, Frank Miller, and Professor Schroeder. Studied at the Art Students League of New York with Charles H. Davis. In Toledo, Ohio, 1875–77, and visited,...

George McConnell was born in Steubenville, OH in 1852 and died in Portland, ME in 1929.  He studied portraiture in Philadelphia and New York.   He also studied landscape painting with George Inness and continue his art training at the Academy Julien in Paris. In 1883, at the age of thirty-one, McConnell settled in Portland, Maine.  He did...

John McLenan (1827-1865) was an influential and prolific illustrator whose works appeared nationally in books and periodicals from 1852 to 1866. According to legend, McLenan was sketching on a barrel head when he was “discovered” in 1848 by famed wood engraver DeWitt C. Hitchcock. The meeting resulted immediately in a new career for McLenan, who...

On January 28, 1882, Anna Althea Hills (1882-1930) was born in Ravenna, Ohio. She was a great early American artist and a member of the California school of Impressionism. She is best known for her landscape, marine, genre and figure painting. Anna Hills was the founder and six term president of the Laguna Beach Art Association and helped raise the...

Dennis Miller Bunker (November 6, 1861 – December 28, 1890) was an American painter and innovator of American Impressionism. His mature works include both brightly colored landscape paintings and dark, finely drawn portraits and figures. One of the major American painters of the late 19th century,[1] and a friend of many prominent artists of the...

Edwin Howland Blashfield (December 5, 1848 – October 12, 1936), an American artist, was born in New York City. He was a pupil of Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat in Paris beginning in 1867, and became (1888) a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. For some years a genre painter, he later turned to decorative work, where his academic...

Elizabeth Jane Gardner (October 4, 1837-January 28, 1922) was an American academic and salon painter, who was born in Exeter, New Hampshire. She was an American expatriate who died in Paris where she had lived most of her life. She studied in Paris under the figurative painter Hugues Merle (1823-1881), the well-known salon painter Jules Joseph...

Ernest Haskell was born in Woodstock, Connecticut. In 1897 he left to study in Paris, returning to New York in 1899 and supporting himself with portrait work and poster design. The mountain lake in Ernest Haskell's etching The Sylvan Sea was one of many different locales--from California to Florida to Maine--he depicted in his work. In addition to...

George Loring Brown (1814-1889) was an American landscape painter. He was born in Boston and first studied wood engraving under Alonzo Hartwell and worked as an illustrator. He studied painting with Washington Allston, but soon went to Europe, residing principally in Italy for years. The motives of his pictures are usually Italian, and there is...

Esteemed by his peers as "our ablest marine painter," James Hamilton won fame as an artist who, "in his best works, exhibited the higher mental powers of the poet, as well as rare technical skill." Born in Entrien, near Belfast, Ireland, Hamilton emigrated with his family to the United States in 1834, settling in Philadelphia. He exhibited his...