Francis Brooks Chadwick

Francis Brooks Chadwick
Portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1880. Orlando Museum of Art
Born	(1850-01-01)January 1, 1850 Boston, Massachusetts (Etats-Unis)
Died	1943 Groslay, Val-d'Oise (95) (France)
Nationality	United States (WASP)
Education	Harvard University, Académie Julian
Known for	Painting
Notable work	Rivière au printemps (Entre 1850 et 1943, RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski The Bridge at Grez sur Loing in the Springtime (1887), Adelson Galleries, New-York
Movement	Impressionism

American-French painter

Francis Brooks Chadwick (January 1, 1850–1942/43), was an American painter active in France.

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 Löwstädt-Chadwick 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] They had three children including Louise Read Chadwick, wife of Squadron Leader Marcel Courmes^[2]

He is known for scenes of Grez.^[3]

Portraits of Francis

Francis B. Chadwick,
John Singer Sargent, 1880.
Orlando Museum of Art
Francis B. Chadwick
Francis B. Chadwick
portrait by his wife
Chadwick street plaque in front of Chadwick' house, Grez-sur-Loing, France

Portraits of Francis Family

Christopher C. Chadwick
Father of Francis
Louise Read Chadwick
Mother of Francis
Emma Chadwick
Wife of Francis

References

^ Francis Brooks Chadwick on website for artists active in Cornwall
^ Frederick Delius, Delius, a Life in Letters: 1862-1908, Harvard University Press, 1983, p. xx (lire en ligne).
^ Francis Brooks Chadwick Archived 2016-04-29 at the Wayback Machine on Berry-hill gallery website