American, 18th – 19th century, male.
Active in Exeter, USA, from 1770 to 1810.
Engraver. Ex-libris plates.
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American, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1773, in Charleston (South Carolina); died 1846, in Philadelphia.
Engraver (line-engraving), illustrator.
James Akin was born in South Carolina, but moved first to Philadelphia and then to Newburyport and Salem in Massachusetts. Among his works are a portrait of ...
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American, 19th century, male.
Activec.1880.
Engraver, illustrator.
A wood engraver, Anderson worked as an illustrator for several American newspapers.
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American, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1775, in New York; died 17 January 1870, in New Jersey.
Engraver, draughtsman, illustrator.
Alexander Anderson, the son of a Scotsman, was the first person to practise wood engraving in the USA. He first studied medicine and qualified as a doctor in ...
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American, 19th century, male.
Active in Philadelphia 1811-1824.
Engraver (line-engraving).
Hugh Anderson engraved portraits for several books.
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American, 19th century, male.
Born 1835, in New York; died 2 July 1906, in West Newton (Massachusetts).
Watercolourist, engraver, illustrator.
Andrew Varick Stout Anthony travelled for several years and then went to live in Boston and, later, New York. He was a member of the American Watercolor Society and produced a variety of woodcuts, including ...
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American, 19th century, male.
Active 1846-1850.
Engraver.
Samuel F. Baker produced wood engravings for many books. He is well-known for his burlesque and satirical engravings.
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American, 19th century, male.
Born 1857, in Boston (Massachusetts).
Illustrator, engraver.
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American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 2 October 1874, in St Louis (Missouri); died 1952.
Painter, illustrator. Figure compositions.
Taos Society of Artists.
Oscar Edmund Berninghaus was the son of a lithographer. He took evening classes at the St Louis School of Fine Arts for three terms and in ...
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American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 29 January 1855, in Dedham (Massachusetts).
Painter, illustrator, engraver (etching).
Henry Robertson Blaney specialised in Eastern subjects and in 1901 exhibited in Buffalo, where he received an honourable mention.
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American, 19th century, male.
Born 9 July 1857, in Cincinnati (Ohio); died 8 June 1903, in New York, of pneumonia.
Painter, illustrator, engraver, pastellist. Genre scenes. Murals.
Japonisme.
Robert Frederick Blum's parents were German immigrants. In 1873-1874 he was apprenticed to an engraving firm, and he studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and in Philadelphia and Europe. From ...
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Luis Enrique Tord
(fl. mid-19th century).
?French draftsman and lithographer, active in the USA and Peru. He lived briefly in the USA, where in 1852 he published a book containing thirty-two woodcuts depicting American working-class figures. Later he moved to Lima, the capital of Peru, where he published two albums of hand-colored lithographs, Recuerdos de Lima...
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American, 19th century, male.
Born 1856, in Richfield Springs (New York).
Painter, illustrator, engraver.
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American, 19th century, male.
Born 1801; died 1856.
Watercolourist, draughtsman, illustrator, lithographer.
John T. Bowen directed the publication of three important collections of engravings: History of the Indian Tribes of North America by McKenney and Hall; The Birds of North America published by John James Audubon; and ...
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American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1853, in Louisville (Kentucky); died 1921, in Brooklyn (New York City).
Painter, engraver, illustrator. Figures, portraits.
New York, 23 April 1982: Cale, the Bravest Apache (c. 1890, oil on canvas, 12 × 8 ins/30.5 × 20.2 cm) USD 4,000...
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American, 19th century, male.
Born 17 November 1857, in Lawrence (Massachusetts).
Engraver, illustrator.
Lewis Jesse Bridgman specialised in illustrating children's books.
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American, 19th century.
Born 1841, in Harrisburg (Pennsylvania); died 1918, in St Paul (Minnesota).
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer, cartographer, illustrator. Landscapes.
Grafton Tyler Brown was the son of emancipated slaves who had come from Maryland in 1837. He moved with them to San Francisco in 1861...
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American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1869, in Malden (Massachusetts).
Painter, engraver, illustrator, decorative designer.
Harold Brown studied at the Massachusetts Art School, the Cowes Art School in Boston and under Jean Paul Laurens and Gérôme in Paris. He was awarded a bronze medal at the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo in ...
