George Caleb Bingham

George Caleb Bingham
George Caleb Bingham, Public domain

(1811–1879) American artist (1811–1879)

George Caleb Bingham (USA, 1811–1879) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, George Caleb Bingham belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.

George Caleb Bingham was born in Augusta County and died in Kansas City. George Caleb Bingham worked in Düsseldorf, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Boonville. Wikidata associates George Caleb Bingham with luminism.

One of the best-known works is ‘Fur Traders Descending the Missouri’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait, genre art, and history painting. The catalogue has 47 works by George Caleb Bingham with free images. The dated works span the years 1834–1877. Works by George Caleb Bingham are held by several collections, among them Saint Louis Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Art, National Portrait Gallery, and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Robert Cornelius, Alfred Jacob Miller, Max Haushofer, Petrus Franciscus Greive, and Edward William Cooke.