New Jersey artist Andrew Melrose painted traditional, atmospheric landscapes inspired by travels in Europe, South American and various regions of the United States. Many of his best paintings are views of New York State and New Jersey, especially regions of the Hudson River Valley and New York Harbor. Melrose typically painted in an indigenous...

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...

Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia School of Design. She traveled to Europe and studied in Spain, France and Italy.  Until 1922, she lived primarily in New Hampshire, but then made her permanent home in Princeton, New Jersey.  In 1924, she became a member of the National...

George M. Miller was a stone-cutter, potter, and sculptor who often "modeled" in wax. Among biographical sources there is disagreement about whether his birthplace was Scotland or Germany, and about the original spelling of his last name: Muller, Müller, or Miler. Nothing is known about his family, education, or date of birth. Miller had come to...

Francis Davis Millet (November 3, 1846 - April 15, 1912) was an American painter, sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. Early life Francis Davis Millet was born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. At age sixteen, Millet entered the Massachusetts regiment, first as a drummer boy and then a...

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...

Edward Moran (19 Aug. 1829-9 June 1901), painter, was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, the son of Thomas Moran and Mary Higson, home handloom weavers. Edward was the elder brother of the painters Peter, John, and Thomas Moran. Moran joined his parents working at the handloom at an early age. The Moran parents, like other home textile workers of...

Carl Christian Heinrich Nahl (Oct. 18, 1818 Kassel - March 1, 1878, San Francisco), later known as Charles Nahl, and sometimes Karl Nahl, Charles Christian Nahl or Charles C. Nahl, was a German-born painter who is called California's first significant artist[1]. Early years He was the son of Georg Valentin Friedrich Nahl (1791–1857) and Henriette...

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...

Frederick Mulhaupt was born in Rockport, Missouri, March 28, 1871 the son of Jacob Mulhaupt of Baden and Margeret Liebig of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. He grew up in the small town of Kiowa on the southern border of Kansas, a wild unsettle Indian territory. The majority of his professional career was spent in NYC, Boston and East Gloucester, MA....

Gilbert Davis Munger achieved great success in the nineteenth century, painting landscapes of the newly discovered American West. Biography Gilbert Davis Munger’s painting career can be divided into three phases: artist-explorer painting the spectacular landscapes of California, Oregon, Washington, and Utah; critically acclaimed...

Henry Siddons Mowbray (August 5, 1858 – 1928) was an American artist. Biography He was born of English parents at Alexandria, Egypt. Left an orphan, he was taken to America by an uncle, who settled at North Adams, Massachusetts. After a year at the United States Military Academy at West Point, he went to Paris and entered the atelier of Leon...

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...

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.

Robert Jenkins Onderdonk (January 16, 1852[2] – July 2, 1917) was an American painter and art teacher, born in Catonsville, Maryland.[1] An important artist in the first stage of Texas art,[3] he was a long-time art teacher in San Antonio and Dallas, where he formed art associations and leagues; for his contributions to the culture of art and...

Thomas Satterwhite Noble (May 29, 1835 - April 27, 1907) was born in Lexington, Kentucky. He grew up on a plantation where hemp and cotton were grown. Noble saw the effects of slavery firsthand and portrayed many scenes of the Old South in his works. He attended Transylvania University in Lexington and studied art with Oliver Frazier and George P....

William Sidney Mount (November 26, 1807 – November 19, 1868) was an American genre painter and contemporary of the Hudson River School. Mount was born in Setauket, New York and trained at the National Academy of Design in New York. Although he started as a history painter, Mount moved to depicting scenes from everyday life. Two of his more...

Arthur Parton was born in Hudson, New York March 26, 1842. He enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, studying under William Trost Richards. Gaining a keen grounding in the technical aspects of his art, Richards remained a strong influence. Parton was known as a Hudson River School painter, especially of river and...

"Fanny" Palmer is best known for her illustrations of American life for Currier and Ives. Born in England, she was educated in London. In the early 1840s, she and her husband immigrated to the United States, settling in New York City. Palmer had studied art and soon found work as an illustrator specializing in lithography. By 1849 she was working for...

In 1980 Mary Black proposed that Nehemiah Partridge may be the anonymous artist recognized variously by the appellations "Schuyler Limner" and "Aetatis Suae Limner". Nehemiah Partridge, one of four members of his family known to have borne this name, was one of five children of Col. William Partridge (c. 1652-1728) and Mary Brown, who were married...

William McGregor Paxton (June 22, 1869 – 1941) was an American Impressionist painter. Born in Baltimore, the Paxton family came to Newton Corner in the mid-1870s, where William's father James established himself as a caterer. At 18, William won a scholarship to attend the Cowles Art School, where he began his art studies with Dennis Miller...

Nothing is known about this artist, except the name A. HASHAGEN and the date MAY 1847, both part of the inscription on the National Gallery's painting Ship "Arkansas" Leaving Havana (1956.13.4). Some Hashagens emigrated to America from the vicinity of Bremen, Germany, in the nineteenth century, but no connection has been made between them and the...

Charles Peale Polk (March 17, 1767 – May 6, 1822) was a renowned American portrait painter and the nephew of artist Charles Willson Peale. Biography Polk was born in Annapolis, Maryland, to Elizabeth Digby Peale and Robert Polk. At age eight or ten (sources vary on the exact age), after being orphaned, he was sent to Philadelphia to live with...

Charles Webster Hawthorne (January 8, 1872 – November 29, 1930) was an American portrait and genre painter and a noted teacher who founded the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899. He was born in Lodi, Illinois[1] and his parents returned to Maine, raising him in the state where Charles' father was born. At age 18, he went to New York, working as an...

Eunice Pinney is the earliest known American primitive watercolorist. She was born into a large, wealthy family in Simsbury, Connecticut. Well-educated, she and her seven siblings enjoyed performing plays for neighbors, and Pinney's flair for drama surfaces in the poses, gestures, and facial expressions of the people in her...