Artist Keywords

Howard Russell Butler

Howard Russell Butler (1856 - 1934) was active/lived in New Jersey, California, New York.  Howard Butler is known for Seascape, portrait, solar eclipse and landscape painting.

Howard Russell Butler (March 3, 1856 – Princeton, NJ. May 20, 1934) was an American painter and founder of the American Fine Arts Society. Butler also persuaded Andrew Carnegie to fund the construction of Carnegie Lake near Princeton University. Butler also designed a mansion, an astronomy hall and painted a solar eclipse for the U.S. Naval Observatory.

Butler was born in New York City. He was the son of William Allen Butler, a lawyer and satirist. His early artistic training with William Shannon was complemented by visits to the National Academy of Design, where his parents were both fellows, and the studio of his uncle, William Stanley Haseltine.

Butler attended Princeton University and obtained a degree in Science in 1876 and he was invited to stay on for a year as an assistant professor of physics. From 1878 to 1879 he was doing technical illustrations in New York where he knew Thomas Edison. In 1881 he was able to graduate from Columbia University where he had studi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5131 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 227 auction lots for Howard Russell Butler (of which 177 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 2 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Howard Russell Butler as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Howard Russell Butler in 1 of its research Essays. Howard Russell Butler has 31 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Howard Russell Butler available:    Abbott Fuller Graves,  Robert Emmett Owen,  Hayley Lever,  Ernest Fiene,  Arthur Clifton Goodwin,  John William Casilear,  Arthur Bowen Davies,  Frederick Judd Waugh,  Alexander Helwig Wyant,  Charles Courtney Curran,  George Washington Nicholson,  Xanthus Russell Smith,  Charles Sydney Hopkinson,  Johann Berthelsen,  John Fabian Carlson,  Bruce (Robert Bruce) Crane,  Edward Alfred Cucuel,  J Alden Weir,  Colin Campbell Cooper,  Orlando Rouland,  Gifford Beal,  Hal Robinson,  Henry Martin Gasser,  William Charles Anthony Frerichs