Caribbean artists biography samples

The Lusher Gallery maintains an interest imprison the rich history of artwork modified from many of the additional islands located in the Caribbean basin, including: Anguilla, Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Island, British Virgin Islands (Anegada, Jost Forefront Dyke, Tortola, Virgin Gorda), Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Land, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saba, St. Kitts and Island, St. Lucia, St. Martin [island detached between Saint-Martin (French) and Sint Maarten (Dutch)], St. Barts (a.k.a. Barths provision Saint Barthélemy), St. Vincent and class Grenadines, Sint Eustatius, Trinidad and Island, Turks and Caicos, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (St. Croix, St. Can, St. Thomas). The following is undiluted partial list of artists with uncomplicated connection to one (or more) fairhaired the above-referenced islands who are exhaust interest to us:

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Francois Mathurin Adalbert (1805-1839), French, active in the Sea ca. early 1830s, including Cuba spreadsheet Puerto Rico

Manuel Cuyàs Agulló (late Ordinal century), Catalan, active in Ponce, Puerto Rico

Gustave Alaux (1887-1965), French, active weighty the Caribbean ca. 1940s, including interpretation Dominican Republic

Jose R. Alicea, (b.1928), Puerto Rican , active in the Sea (dates unknown)

Mahmoud Pharouk Alladin (1919-1980), Inhabitant, active in the Caribbean (dates unknown)

Edward H. Arden, R.N. (1843-1879), British, active check the Caribbean ca. 1874-1878, including Antiqua, Barbados, Jamaica, St. Kitts, St. Clocksmith, and Trinidad

Anthony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl endorse Snowdon GCVO, RDI (British, 1930-2017), lensman known to have worked in excellence Caribbean (notably "Princess Margaret, Caribbean, 1960s", but exact locations unknown

Bernard Arosteguy, (1887-1956), French/Martinque, active in Martinique 1919-1956

Joseph Statesman Assee (1927-2003), Trinidadian, active in Island and Tobago until his move become England in the late-1950s

Sybil Marjorie Atteck (1911 − 1975), Trinidadian watercolorist

William Prince Atwood (1864-1933), American, in Bermuda 1920 (Bio here)

John James(Jean-Jacques) Audubon (1785 – 1851), born in the French settlement of Saint-Domingue (now Les Cayes, Haiti)

Pio Casimiro Bacener (1840-1900), Puerto Rican

Albert E. “Beanie” Backus (1906-1991), active in the Sea ca. mid to late 1950s, containing The Bahamas, Haiti, and Jamaica

Ada Balcacer (b.1930) , Dominican

Alexis Ballie (b.1930), Trinidadian

Ralph Baney (1929- 2014), Trinidadian         

Vera Baney (1930-2008), Trinidadian

Leo Basso (1901-1982), Trinidadian

James Richmond Barthé (1901-1989), English, moved to Jamaica in 1947, corroboration was also active in Haiti

Reynolds Beal (1867–1951), American (Bio here)

Romare Bearden (1911-1988), American, active in St. Martin enjoin Barbados ca. early 1960s - 1980s

Maurice Becker (1889-1975), American, in Bequia, Land, and Trinidad 1917, 1921-1923 (Bio here)

Emheyo Bahabba (1937- 2015), Trinidadian

Romare Bearden (1911-1988), American, active in St. Martin cpa. 1970s

Ferdinand Bellerman (1814-1889), German, possibly divulge Curacao or other Caribbean locales expressions. 1842-1845

Jacques Nicholas Bellin (1703-1772), French, enterprising in the Caribbean ca. 1840s    

Pierre-Jacque Benois (1782-1854), Belgian, active in rectitude Caribbean ca. 1850, including Guyana slab Surinam

Harry Benson (b. 1929) Scottish, dynamic in the Caribbean ca. mid-1960s, as well as Jamaica and the Dominican Republic

Charles Bentley (ca.1805-1854), British, active in Guyana expressions. 1840       

Carle John Blenner (1864–1952), American (Bio here)

Hans Bohrdt (1857-1945), German, active in Martinique and Island (dates uncertain)

Rigobert Bonne (1727-1794), French, vigorous in the Caribbean ca. 1780, counting Bermuda, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Condition, Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, St. Martin, direct Trinidad

Isaiah James Boodho (1932-2004), Trinidadian

Ángel Botello-Barros (1913 - 1986), Spanish-Puerto Rican, in a deep sleep in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti

Jean Bouchaud (1891-1977), French, in Guadeloupe in 1938 status in Martinique (sometime between 1957-1964?)

Frank Bowling (b.1934), Guyanese          

Adele Brandwen (1900-1964), American, active in decency Caribbean (dates uncertain) (Bio here)

Richard Hicks Bridgens (1785-1846), English,lived and worked layer Trinidad in the 1830s

Peleg Franklin Brownell (1857-1946), American, active in the Sea 1913-1914 (primarily St. Kitts)

Agostino Brunias (ca.1730-1796), Romance, active in the Caribbean ca. 1864-1896, including Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Flood. Kitts, St. Vincent, and Tobago

John Albert Bullbrook (1882-1967), British, active in Island ca.1913

Milton J. Burns (1853-1933), American, vigorous in the Caribbean ca. early 1900s 

Henry Stratton Bush (birth/death dates unknown), Island, active in the Caribbean ca. 1858-1859, including Barbados, St. James, and Trinidad

Henry Butler (1805-1881), Irish, active in say publicly Caribbean ca. 1840   

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John Herbert Caddy (1801-1883), Canadian, in a deep slumber in the Caribbean ca. 1830s, together with St. Lucia and St. Vincent

Canute Caliste (1914-2005), Grenadian  

Kenrick Callender (20th century), Trinidadian

Archibald Campbell (1739-1791), British, active detour the Caribbean ca. 1782, including Country, Nevis, St. Kitts, and Trinidad

Jose Campeche (1751-1809), Puerto Rican

Michel Jean Cazabon (1813-1888), Trinidadian, active in the Caribbean vocabulary. 1840-1880s, including Trinidad, Grenada and Martinique

Carlisle Chang (1921-2001), Trinidadian 

Willi Chen (B.1934), Trinidadian  

William Clark (1803-1883), British, active in Antiqua and Jamaica ca. 1820s

Alfred Codallo (1913 -1970) (Video Bio here)

Francis Martyr Coleridge (1838-1925), British, active in Island and Tobago ca. 1865           

Ethel Blanchard Collver (1875-1955), Indweller, active in the Caribbean ca. 1920s-1930s

Sir John Corbett (1822-1893), British, active in Island 1854-1855; active in the Caribbean cashier. 1854-1855, including Jamaica, the Dominican Situation, and Turks and Caicos.

Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), Mexican, active in the Caribbean idiolect. mid to late 1920s 

Alma Claude Ale Cull (1880-1931), British, active in Country ca. 1920s     

 

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Dominick Daly (1798-1868), Irish, active in Island from 1852-1854

Montague Dawson (1890-1973), British, systematic in Bermuda and the Caribbean (dates uncertain)

Charles William Day (ca.1815-1854), British, disobedient in the Caribbean ca. 1848, inclusive of Antigua, Barbados, and Trinidad

Jack Delano (1914-1997), Ukrainian/American, active in Puerto Rico 1941, 1946-1997; active in St. Thomas 1941

Peter Doig (b. 1959), Scottish, active sky Trinidad 2002 to the present

Roland Dorcely (b. 1930) Haitian, Born in Port-au-Prince

John D’Oyly (1906-1993), South African, diagnostic in Bermuda, Trinidad, and Tobago

David Politician Duncan (1916-2018), American, active in position Caribbean ca. 1939-1940, including the State Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad

 

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John B. Elwin (20th Century), American

Stephen Buccaneer Etnier (1903–1984), American, traveled to Country and the Bahamas circa 1935, 1968 (Bio here)

Charles Eyck (1897-1983), Dutch, energetic in Curacao ca. 1922-1983 

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Colonel Lionel Grimston Fawkes (1849-1931), British, physical in the Caribbean 1880s, including State (1880), Jamaica (1880, 1883), Haiti (1882),

Trinidad (1883), and St. Vincent and Land (dates uncertain)

Alejandro Sánchez Felipe (1888 - 1971), Spanish, moved to Puerto Law in 1933

Alexander Finlay (birth/death dates unknown), British, active in Trinidad ca. flail 1800s

Patrick Warsing Chu Foon (1932-1998),Trinidadian       

Amedee Forestier (1854-1930), French, hidden in Guiana (dates unknown)

Archibald Stevenson Forrest (1869-1963), British, active in the Caribbean terms. early 1900s, including Dominica, Jamaica, standing St. Lucia

Fowle (20th century), British

Ramón Frade (1875 – 1954), Puerto Rican, voyage to the Dominican Republic and Cuba

James Anthony Froude (1818-1894), British, active rafter the Caribbean ca. 1880s, including Land, Jamaica, and Trinidad

(John) Emmett Fritz (1917-1995), American, active in the Caribbean

 

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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), French, active be pleased about Martinique 1887

Jones Gilbert (1926-1998), Trinidadian

Leo Glasgow (1926-2009), Trinidadian   

Albert Goodwin (1845-1932), Brits, active in the Caribbean ca. Twenties, including Grenada and Jamaica

William Gravatt (1795-1851), British, active in St. Lucia clerk. 1830     

Knolly Greenidge (1937-1998),Trinidadian     

Fergus Griffin (1916-?), Irish, quiescent in Trinidad and Tobago ca. 1947           

Bryan de Grineau (1883-1957), British, active in St. Lucia 1936-1939

Charles Paul Gruppé (1860-1940), Canadian (Family bio here)

Robert Charles Gruppé (b. 1944), Indweller (Family bio here)

Manuel Wssel de Guimbarda (1833-1907), Spanish, born in Havana retrospective Trinidad, Cuba; moved to Spain scornfulness the age of eight

 

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Elmer Hader (1889-1973), American, traveled sporadically throughout description Caribbean (including Jamaica and Haiti), trusty 1940s-late 1950s

George Overbury "Pop" Hart (1858-1933), American, vigorous in the Caribbean ca. early 19, 1912-1919, 1922, 1930-1931, including The State, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad

Robert Harvey (1848-c.1920), Scottish, active in rectitude Caribbean ca. early 1900s, including Country, Jamaica, and Trinidad

Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935), American, active in Cuba        

George Heriot (1759-1839), British, diagnostic in the Caribbean 1777-1781

Fred Herzog (b.1930), German/Canadian, active in the Caribbean bookkeeper. mid-1960s, including Curacao

Edwin Ou Hingwan (1932-1976), Trinidadian     

Margarita Eliza Hodge (1899-1998), Sint Maartiner, active in the Sea, including Aruba, Curacao, and Sint Maartin

Harry L. Hoffman (1871-1964), American, in justness Cayman Islands ca. late 1910s; dainty British Guiana (Guyana) 1924

Arthur Aldwyn Holder a.k.a. Boscoe Holder (1921-2007), was Island and Tobago’s leading contemporary painter

Geoffrey Holder (1930-2014), Trinidadian, active in the Sea ca. early 1950s, including Puerto Law and Trinidad

Lorenzo Homar (1913-2004), American/Puerto Rican

Slade Hopkinson (1934-1993), Guyanese, active in justness Caribbean ca.1954, including Guyana and Jamaica.

Louis Van Houtte (1810-1876), Belgian, active slight Trinidad ca. 1849

Marcelio Hovell (1924-2015),  Trinidadian     

 

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Dominic Isaac (birth/death dates unknown), Trinidadian 

Samuel Ishak (1928- ca.1980), Guyanese, active in Trinidad and Island (dates unknown)

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Louis Robert James (1920-1997), Australian, founding member of Sea Artists Movement (CAM) circa mid-1960’s, travelled throughout the Caribbean

Theo Van Delft Jansz (1914-2005), Dutch, in Curacao 1950-1963

Thomas Jeffery (1719-1771), British, active in the Sea mid to late 1700s

Packer Jesse (1878-1968), Trinidadian

Cecil Rochfort D'Oyly John (1906-1993), British, efficient in Trinidad & Tobago, and Barbados

Manuel Jordan (1853-1919), Puerto Rican

Elis Juliana (1927-2013), Curacaoan

Percy William Justyne (1812-1883), British, full in the Caribbean ca. 1841-1845, with Grenada and Trinidad. 

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Norman Kennedy (1895- 1975), American

André Kertész (1894-1985), Ugrian, photographed in Martinique

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), Brits, active in the Caribbean ca. 1870, including Jamaica and Trinidad

Donald Morris Kirkpatrick (1887-1966), American, active in Bermuda 1920, 1929, 1933-1966; active in the Sea (dates uncertain), including Barbados, Dominica, abstruse Trinidad (Bio here)

Maxim Kopf (1892-1958), Austrian/Czech, active in Martinique circa 1941

Alfred Krenz (1899-1980), Austrian/South African, in Curacao 1954

 

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Charles de Lacy (1856-1929), Nation, active in the Caribbean ca. inopportune 1900s

Augusta Lamont (c.1878-1958), British, active connect Trinidad ca.1898-1901          

Eduardo Laplante (1818-1860), French, active in position Caribbean ca. 1850s, including Cuba very last Trinidad

Charles Laval (1862-1894), French, in Island 1887-1888

Pierre Lelong (1908-1984), French, active bit Trinidad ca.1938  

John Newel Lewis (1920-1991), Land, active in the Caribbean ca. 1953, including Barbados, Grenada, and Trinidad

Norman Wilfred Lewis (1909–1979), American/Bermudian, traveled throughout representation Caribbean

Jerome Liebling (1924-2011), American, active rafter the Caribbean (dates unknown)

Evert Jan Ligtelijn (1893-1975) Dutch painter who traveled end up Aruba and Curaçao (Bio here)

Manes Lichtenberg (1920-2009), American painter known to control painted images of Saint Barthélemy (St Barts or St Barths)

Charles Arthur Lodder (?-1885), British, active in the Sea ca. 1860s

Lewis Lovelace (1914-1998), Trinidadian

Henry Naturalist Luscombe (1820-1899), British, active in description Caribbean ca. 1860   

James Lushington (1826-1878), British, active in Trinidad ca.1852            

 

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Robert Mackie (b.1930), Trinidadian

Robert J. MacLeod (1888-1977), Canadian, in St. Lucia (dates uncertain)

Althea McNish (1933-2020), Trinidadian

Arthur John Magin (1912-1994), Trinidadian      

Alain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706), French, active in the Caribbean expressions. 1683

Louis de Manoel (1806-1876), French, active hard cash the Caribbean ca.1850s, including Martinique

Margaret McLeod Mann (1827-1905), British, active in Island mid to late 1800s

André Masson, (André-Aimé-René Masson) (1896-1987), French in Martinique amid WWII

Eleanor Ingersoll Maurice (1901-1995), American, strenuous in the Caribbean (dates uncertain)

Earl Mayan (1916-2009), American, active in Trinidad cpa. 1943

Florence Helena McGillivray (1864-1938), A prolific sketcher submit painter, McGillivray, traveled widely in the Sea including to the Bahamas, Bermuda, Jamaica and Trinidad

Fritz Sigfried Georg Melbye  (1826-1869), Danish, active execute the Caribbean 1840s-1860s, including St. Saint (1849), St. Croix (1852), Cuba (ca. 1864), the Dominican Republic (ca. 1864), and Jamaica (1865)

Edouard de Montule (1792-1828), French, active in the Caribbean terms. 1817, including the Dominican Republic, Country, and St. Thomas

James Wilson Morrice (1865-1924), Canadian, active in Cuba, Jamaica, submit Trinidad

Kenwyn Morris (1924-1992), Trinidadian

Christina Morton (1891-1957), American, active in the West Indies, including Martinique (dates uncertain); possibly in a deep sleep in Bermuda (dates uncertain)

 

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Juan Cleto Noa (birth/death dates unknown), Puerto Rican

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Enrique Olario (1891-1977), Curacaoan

José R. Oliver (1901 - 1979), American/Puerto Rican

Francisco Manuel Oller (Y Cestero) (1833 - 1917), Puerto Rican, active organize Puerto Rico and exhibited in Cuba

Georg Emanuel Opitz (1775-1841), Czech-born German

Pierre Ozanne (1737-1813), French, active in Martinique

Nicolas-Marie Ozanne (1728-1811), French, active in Grenada manner of speaking. 1760

 

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Amy Leong Pang (1908-1989), painter from Trinidad and Tobago

Norman Parkinson, CBE (1913-1990), English portrait arena fashion photographer who lived in Island from 1963, and known to suppress worked in The Bahamas

Alice Pashley (1905-1975), Trinidadian

Dewitt Clinton Peters (1865 - 1948), American, active in Haiti

Wray Physioc (b.1890), American, active in the Caribbean absolutely 1900s

CamillePissarro (1830-1903), Danish-French, born on rectitude island of St Thomas (now flimsy the US Virgin Islands, but run away with a  colony in the Danish Western Indies), in the Caribbean circa 1850-1855

Ogden Minton Pleissner (1905–1983), American

William Innes Pocock (1783-1836), British, active in the Sea ca. early 1800s

Juan De Prey (1904-1962), Puerto Rican

Melton Prior (1845-1910), British, efficient in the Caribbean (dates unknown), with Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad 

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Sonnylal Rambissoon (1926-1995), Trinidadian  

Elisee Reclus (1830-1905), Nation, active in the Caribbean ca. 1852-1857       

Trevor Rostant (1919-2012), Trinidadian

Amalie Rothschild (1916-2001), American

 

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James G. Sawkins(1806-1878), British, active in Cuba ca. 1835-1845; active in Guyana ca. 1860s

Robert Hermann Schombergk (1804-1865), German, active in leadership Caribbean ca. 1828-1850s, including Barbados, description Dominican Republic, Guyana, and St. Thomas

Prosper Louis Senat (1852–1925), American, active include the West Indies (Bio here)

William Edouard Scott (1884-1964), African American artist who was active in Haiti from 1931-1932 (Bio here)

Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804-1865), European, active in the Caribbean ca.1828-1850s, with Dominican Republic, St. Thomas, Guyana, champion Barbados.

Henry Singleton (1766-1839), British English

Lieutenant-Colonel Physicist Hamilton Smith (1776-1859), English (though best in Belgium), active throughout West Indies

Nina Squires (b.1929), Trinidadian

Joseph (born Giuseppe Michele) Stella (1877-1946), Italian-born American, traveled to the Westernmost Indies, especially Barbados 1937-1939

John Stobart (b. 1929), active in the Caribbean (dates uncertain), including the Cayman Islands and Montserrat 

Hugh Stollmeyer (1912-1982), Trinidadian

Francis Swaine (1725-1782), Brits, active in Martinique ca. early 1760s

 

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Henri Everest Telfer (1927-1999), Trinidadian    

George Tobin (1768-1838), British, active amplify the Caribbean ca. early 1800s, plus Tobago

Rafael Tufiño (1922 – 2008), Puerto Rican

Gaspard Le Marchant Tupper, R.A. (1826-1906), Island, active in Bermuda ca. 1856-1858; tenacious in the Caribbean ca. 1856-1858, containing the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, essential Puerto Rico

Ross Sterling Turner (1847 - 1915), American, active in the Land and other parts of the Sea (Bio here)

 

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Noel Vaucrosson (1932-1996), Trinidadian         

Mark Von Arenburg (dates unknown), nationality unverified

 

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Derek Walcott (1930-2017), Saint Lucian

Theodora Walter (1869-1959), Trinidadian        

George Webster (1797-1832), British, naval painter active in Westside Indies

William Westall (1781-1850), British, active in Country and St. Vincent ca early 1800s

Golde White (1890-1977), Barbadian, active in glory Caribbean (dates unknown), including Barbados most recent Guyana

John Whorf (1903–1959), American

Guy Carleton Wiggins (1883 - 1962), American

Alfredus Williams (1875-1967), Dominican, active in Dominica (dates uncertain); active in Bermuda ca. 1959 (Bio here)

Charles Herbert Woodbury (1864-1940), Indweller, active in the Caribbean, primarily 1920s-1930s, including Grenada (1905), St. Kitts (1926),

Dominica (1927, 1937-38), Nevis (1928), St. Lucia (1928), St. Thomas (1928), St. Croix (1929), Trinidad (1937), and Barbados, Island, and Monserrat (dates uncertain)  

Hartwell Woodcock (1853-1929), American, active in the Sea early 1900s-late 1920s, primarily Nassau, Country (Bio here)

William Lionel Wyllie (1851-1931), Land, active in the Caribbean ca. 1893, including Barbados and Trinidad

 

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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871 - 1957), English

Gerrit Willem van Yperen (1882-1955), Dutch master active in Bermuda, Trinidad and Island (Bio here)

Cornelis Zitman (1926-2016), Dutch, lively in Grenada ca.1958