Born in Lowell, MA, first trained in St Petersburg, later left the US in 1855 for Paris, where he trained under Charles Gleyre. Worked in his London studio 1859-92, influenced by French chinoiserie and ‘Anglo-Japanese’ style. Never returned to the US, and died in London in 1903.
America
Born in Springfield, PA, he left the US for Rome in 1760, settled in London in 1763, and never returned to America. Appointed royal historical painter to King George III, and buried in St Paul’s Cathedral.
More of Chase’s pupils, including early American Modernists John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth, and Georgia O’Keeffe, and many others.
How the teaching of art, especially that of William Merritt Chase, brought artistic independence to the USA in the late 19th century, painters from Lydia Field Emmet to Louise Upton Brumback.
Paintings of real, often poor, people in the Netherlands, the extreme west cost of Brittany, and foothills of the mountains. She also remained in Paris to help there during the First World War.
After training and a promising start to her career in Cincinnati, she moved to Paris, where she painted social realist portraits through northern Europe.
From John Singer Sargent’s alligators near Miami, through Anna Althea Hills’ fall in Orange County, to Grant Wood’s Spring in the yard in Iowa.
From Frederic Edwin Church at the Niagara Falls, through Childe Hassam’s Rainy Day in Boston, to William Merritt Chase teaching outdoor painting on Long Island.
More myth and Symbolism, with the Pleiades, Fates, and Fortuna, followed by large murals and a mosaic in the Library of Congress.
Born and brought up in New York City, he trained in Paris then travelled to Italy. He painted tales from the 1001 Nights, and in 1870 one of the earliest symbolist images by an American artist.
