A prolific and successful painter of landscape, figurative, allegorical, and religious subjects, Elliott Daingerfield has often been referred to as "the American Millet." An important American symbolist and noted art scholar, he followed in the tradition of the artists he admired and wrote about--George Inness, Albert Pinkham Ryder, ... MORE

Lord William Campbell was born circa 1730 to John Campbell, fourth Duke of Argyle. As a yonger son, William chose the career of a military officer and colonial administrator, serving in both the British Army and Royal Navy. While commander of the HMS Nightingale in port at Charleston, South Carolina, Campbell met and married Sarah ... MORE

As both a commercial and fine artist, Clara Davidson is most noted for her feminine figural works. Working as an illustrator for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post and Town and Country, as well as books for young girls, Davidson created portraits and genre scenes that appealed to a female readership. Her ... MORE

Born in Utica, New York, Arthur Davies showed an early aptitude for art and studied with Dwight Williams, a local artist. In 1879, his family moved to Chicago, where he briefly enrolled at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. When Davies returned to Chicago in 1883 after a two-year sojourn in Mexico, he resumed his formal studies at the school of ... MORE

Born to missionary parents in China, Horace Talmage Day traveled far from his place of birth, developing an enduring association with the American South over the course of his career. He immigrated to New York City in 1927 and enrolled that same year at the Art Students League, studying with noted painters Boardman Robinson and Kenneth Hayes ... MORE

William P. Cumming, the foremost scholar of Southern geography, stated that modern cartography of the South began in 1757 with the publication of this highly-illustrated, accurate map of South Carolina and coastal Georgia. William Gerard De Brahm's Map of South Carolina and a Part of Georgia was the first map of the Southeast created ... MORE

Little is known of Louis Delius, an accomplished landscape painter in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Examples of his work testify to time spent in New York, Connecticut, and South Carolina and exhibition records verify his inclusion in shows at both the National Academy of Design and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ... MORE

A man of varied talents and occupations—military officer and engineer, surveyor and cartographer, colonizer and statesman—Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres was born to Huguenot parents in Switzerland. After receiving ... MORE

The son of a Congregational minister, Sidney Dickinson was born in Wallingford, Connecticut and raised in various places, including upstate New York, central Alabama, and Fargo, North Dakota. Interested in art at an early age, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City under William Merritt Chase and George Bridgman, and at the ... MORE

A painter in styles ranging from realism to symbolic abstraction and a distinguished art educator, Lamar Dodd is widely considered the most influential Georgia painter of the twentieth century. He had a career centered in that state, although his education and career assignments took him far beyond his home in Athens. There, at the University ... MORE

Born in Bedford, Virginia, William de Leftwich Dodge spent his adolescent years in Europe, where his mother had moved in 1879 to study painting. Living abroad, he followed his mother's example, studying briefly in Munich and then in Paris, under Jean-Leon Gerome at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, from 1885 to 1889. This solid academic training ... MORE

Born in Webster County, Mississippi, William Dunlap has spent the better part of his life in the South. After graduating from Mississippi College with a degree in art, he went on to receive a master of fine arts from the University of Mississippi in 1969. Having lived in several Southern locales outside his home state, including North Carolina, ... MORE

Of all of the ships commissioned into Confederate military service, the Alabama is one of the few vessels that became legendary during its lifetime. The ship’s depredations upon United States shipping during the Civil War ensured its fame, and after the war its actions played an important role in international diplomacy between America ... MORE

Born into Boston Brahmin society, Elizabeth Boott--known always as Lizzie--was a serious painter intent on a professional career. She studied for several years with William Morris Hunt in Boston and with Thomas Couture outside Paris. She spent the summer of 1879 in Munich with her tutor and future husband, the artist Frank Duveneck. Between ... MORE