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George Augustus Baker (March 19, 1821 – April 2, 1880) was an American portrait painter.. George Augustus Baker was born on March 19, 1821 in New York City. His artistic education was begun by his father George Augustus Baker, Sr. (1760-1847), an artist of merit, and his first professional years were devoted to the then popular miniatures on ivory; but he soon became a portrait painter of ...
George Augustus Williams was born on 4 May 1814 in London. He was the third son of the painter Edward Williams (1781–1855) and Ann Hildebrandt (c.1780–1851), and a member of the Williams family of painters, who were related to such famous artists as James Ward, R.A. and George Morland. His father was a well-known landscape artist, who ...
George Andrews (1911–1996) was a self-taught artist commonly referred to as the "Dot Man". [1] He fathered ten children, including painter Benny Andrews and novelist Raymond Andrews. [2] He was born in Plainview, Georgia, achieved a third grade education and worked as a sharecropper.
George Augustus Mortimer Leigh Holmes (c. 1826 – 30 March 1911), known as George Augustus Holmes, was an English artist. Holmes worked in oils, and his subjects are mostly scenes of everyday rural life. [ 1 ]
George Augustus Wallis (Merton, Surrey, 1761 - Florence, 1847) was an English painter, active in Italy. [ 1 ] Wallis began his career as a protégé of George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick , a serious patron of the arts who supported the artist financially from at least 1787. [ 2 ]
Taylor was born at Sydney in 1872. He began his working life articled to an architect, a Mr Hobbs. [4] However, he first became known as an artist, and was a member of the Sydney Bohemian set in the 1890s, whose doings he was afterwards to record in his Those Were the Days, a volume of reminiscences published in 1918.
George Eugene Morgan was born to George William and Vesta Rowena Farnham Morgan of Chelsea (three and a half miles west of Gardiner, Maine).As a young man and as most in the area, Morgan found work along the Kennebec, first in Augusta with a furniture maker, then for many years as a harness maker, and then for even more years he worked in the shoe factories of Gardiner (Commonwealth Shoe ...
George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) was an American artist, soldier and politician known in his lifetime as "the Missouri Artist". [1] Initially a Whig , he was elected as a delegate to the Missouri legislature before the American Civil War where he fought against the extension of slavery westward.