Charles Braddock Gifford

1830-1888

American (Massachusetts; San Francisco, California)

A lithographer and landscape artist, Charles Gifford was born in 1830 in Massachusetts and appears to have moved to California about 1855 with his wife, Josepha of Nicaragua. After settling in San Francisco, he worked with various lithographers such as the Nahi brothers and Grafton Tyler Brown, before becoming a partner of William V. Gray in a lithography firm. In 1862, Gifford's five sheet view of San Francisco from Russian Hill is perhaps his most famous work.