John F. Weir was a well-known American watercolorist and sculptor, the child of Robert Walter Weir.

He was born in August 28, 1841, at West Point, New York, and planned his studies along with his father and at the National Academy, New York. In 1861 John F. Weir opened a studio in New York City and he became a associate of the National Academy in 1866.

In 1868 he went abroad for his studies. After his arrival he served as the first director of the School of Fine Arts at Yale University (1869-1913). He expired in Providence RI, April 8, 1926.

He designed the open fountain on New Haven Green.

Thomas Nast was a well-known German-American caricaturist as well as editorial cartoonist lived in the 19th century and was called by people as the father of American political cartooning.

He was born in the quarters of Landau, Germany, the son of a instrumentalist in the 9th contingent Bavarian group. His mother took him to New York in 1846. He deliberately studied fine art there for almost a year with Alfred Fredericks in addition to Theodore Kaufmann and at the school of the National Academy of Drawing. After school at the age of 15, he started working in 1855 as a architect for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated paper; three years after for Harper’s Weekly.

His primary sober works in drawing was the cartoon “Peace,” intended for against those in the North who disparate the prosecution of the American Civil War. This and his other cartoons during the conflict and restoration days were put into paper called Harper’s weekly. He was well-known for illustrating battlefield in border and southern states.

Arthur Quartley was an American painter well-known for his marine seascapes.

Quartley was by birth in Paris and lived there til he completes the age of twelve, when his relatives enthused to Baltimore, Maryland. He learned drawing along with his father C.G. Quartley, who was an English engraver. His father was alleged to have demand two drawings per week from the young boy.

In 1862 Quartley and his family founded a devise firm in Baltimore. The firm Emmart and Quartley was considered as the best decorating company in the city. He held a thriving show of maritime paintings at the studio of Norval H. Busey in Baltimore.

To track his painting more seriously, Quartley went to New York City in 1875. New York at that point had turn out to be a leading center for prominent painters. From there he portrayed seascapes of Long Island bays, New York Port, the New Hampshire Isle of Shoals, and Naragansett Bay in Rhode islet.