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)
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

Francis Brooks Chadwick (Boston 1850 - Groslay 1943), was an American painter active in France.

family of WASP, he was born in Boston and studied at Harvard. To pursue his interest in art he attended the Académie Julian in Paris.

He was cousins with the painter John Singer Sargent and Ralph Wormeley Curtis and travelled with them to Haarlem in 1880 and Bretagne.

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.

They had three children including Louise Read Chadwick, wife of Squadron Leader Marcel Courmes

He is known for scenes of Grez.

Portraits of Francis

• 
  Francis B. Chadwick
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  Francis B. Chadwick
  portrait by his wife
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  Chadwick street plaque in front of Chadwick' house, Grez-sur-Loing, France

Portraits of Francis Family

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

References

• Francis Brooks Chadwick on Artnet