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8 unusual facts about William Merritt Chase


Colby College Museum of Art

In the early 1950s, Adeline and Caroline Wing gave paintings by William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, and Andrew Wyeth to Colby College.

Guy Pène du Bois

Pène du Bois began his artistic training in 1899, when he enrolled in the New York School of Art to study under the painter William Merritt Chase.

Hong Kong Academy of Fine Arts

The Hong Kong Academy of Fine Art's history can be traced back to the 1800s when Professor Chan Hoi-Ying's teacher, Li Tiet-Fu, began learning his trade from the two famed American painters; John Singer Sergeant and William Merritt Chase.

Johan Claesz Loo

His portrait in the 1633 schutterstuk formed the inspiration for a self-portrait by William Merritt Chase in 1903.

Percy Gray

He was clearly applying the precepts of his mentor William Merritt Chase in exaggeration of light and color.

He studied under Arthur Frank Mathews at the San Francisco School of Design and later under William Merritt Chase.

Terrace at the Mall, Central Park

Terrace at the Mall, Central Park (French: Terrasse au centre commercial, Central Park) is an oil on panel painting by an American painter William Merritt Chase who was known as an exponent of Impressionism.

William Merritt Chase Homestead

It was built as a residence and studio for artist William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) in 1892 by the prominent architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White.


American Impressionism

American impressionist artists also thrived in California at Carmel and Laguna Beach; in New York on eastern Long Island at Shinnecock, largely due to the influence of William Merritt Chase; and in Boston where Edmund Charles Tarbell and Frank Weston Benson became important practitioners of the impressionist style.

Arthur Quartley

The Tilers was a group of artists and writers, that included such luminaries as Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, and Augustus Saint Gaudens.

Hilda Belcher

Belcher graduated from Newark High School in 1900 and later moved to New York City to attend the New York School of Art, where she studied with William Merritt Chase, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Robert Henri.


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