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William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 – October 25, 1916) was an American painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher.
Chase was born in Williamsburg (now Nineveh), Indiana, to the family of a local merchant. Chase's father moved the family to Indianapolis in 1861 and employed his son as a salesman in the family business. Chase showed an early interest in art, and studied under local, self-taught artists Barton S. Hays and Jacob Cox.
After a brief stint in the Navy, Chase's teachers urged him to travel to New York to further his artistic training. He arrived in New York in 1869, met and studied with Joseph Oriel Eaton for a short time, then enrolled in the National Academy of Design under Lemuel Wilmarth, a student of the famous French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.
In 1870 declining family fortunes forced Chase to leave New York for St. Louis, Missouri, where his family was then based. While he worked to help support his family he became active in the St. Louis art community, winning prizes for his paintings at a local exhibition. He also exhibited his first painting at the National Academy in 1871. Chase's talent elicited the interest of wealthy St. Louis collectors who arranged for him to visit Europe for two years, in exchange for paintings and Chase's help in securing European art for their collections.
In Europe Chase settled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, a long-standing center of art training that was attracting increasing numbers of Americans. He studied under Alexander Von Wagner and Karl von Piloty, and befriended American artists Walter Shirlaw and Frank Duveneck. In Munich, Chase employed his rapidly burgeoning talent most often in figurative works that he painted in the loosely-brushed style popular with his instructors. One of these, a portrait titled "Keying Up" – The Court Jester (now in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts) won a medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876 and gained Chase his first fame.
Chase worked in all media. He was most fluent in oil painting and pastel, but also created watercolor paintings and etchings.
Chase Honors and late career
Chase won many honors at home and abroad, was a member of the National Academy of Design, New York, and from 1885 to 1895 was president of the Society of American Artists. He became a member of the Ten American Painters after John Henry Twachtman died.
Chase's creativity declined in his later years, especially as modern art took hold in America, but he continued to paint and teach into the 1910s. One of his last teaching positions was at Carmel, California in the summer of 1914. Chase died on October 25, 1916 in his New York townhouse, an esteemed elder of the American art world. Today his works are in most major museums in the United States.
We offer handmade oil painting reproduction of works by Merritt Chase as below:
William Merritt Chase Paintings:Idle Hours
William Merritt Chase Paintings:Interior of the Baptistry at St. Mark's
William Merritt Chase Paintings:Alice in the Shinnecock Studio
William Merritt Chase Paintings:Peonies
William Merritt Chase Paintings:After the Rain
William Merritt Chase Paintings:Reflections
William Merritt Chase Paintings:Afternoon by the Sea aka Gravesend Bay
William Merritt Chase Paintings:The Lake for Miniature Yachts
William Merritt Chase Paintings:I am Going to See Grandma
William Merritt Chase Paintings:On the Lake Central Park
William Merritt Chase Paintings:Back of a Nude,and more
William Merritt Chase art like Gondolas Along Venetian Canal,View from Central Park,
Sheds and Schooner, Gloucester,Summertime,A Sunny Day at Shinnecock Bay,Venice View of the Navy Arsenal etc.
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