Francis Brooks Chadwick

Portrait of Francis Brooks Chadwick by John Singer Sargent

Francis Brooks Chadwick (1850 1942), was an American painter active in France.

Biography

He was born in Boston and studied at Harvard, and to pursue his interest in art he attended the Académie Julian in Paris. He was friends with the painter John Singer Sargent and travelled with him to Haarlem in 1880. The following year he married the Swedish painter Emma Lowstadt and they settled in Grez-sur-Loing, where he remained the rest of his life, though the couple travelled to other summer art colonies on vacation.[1]

He is known for scenes of Grez.[2]


References

  1. Francis Brooks Chadwick on website for artists active in Cornwall
  2. Francis Brooks Chadwick on Berry-hill gallery website
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