John Adams Elder, painter of landscapes, portraits, and genre scenes, was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia. As a boy he learned the craft of cameo cutting. In 1850, at the age of seventeen he moved to New York City, where he studied briefly with Daniel P. Huntington. Within a year of his arrival in New York, he traveled to Düsseldorf, ... MORE

Recognized as one of America's leading watercolorists during the early twentieth century, Frank English was born in Louisville, Kentucky and studied under Thomas Eakins and others at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. From 1881 until 1903, he exhibited at the Academy, as well as the Philadelphia Art Club and the American Art Society, ... MORE

Raised in affluence as the son of a turbine manufacturer in York, Pennsylvania, Stephen Etnier was expected to become an engineer and did not receive any formal training in art until he entered the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1927. Beginning in 1928, he undertook a private apprenticeship with Rockwell Kent and later worked with ... MORE