Francis Brooks Chadwick (Boston 1850 - Groslay 1943https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/ressources/repertoire-artistes-personnalites/francis-brooks-chadwick-36551), was an American painter active in France.
Biography Born into a family of WASP in Boston, Chadwick studied at Harvard. To pursue his interest in art, he attended the Académie Julian in Paris.
He was cousins with the painters 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.Francis Brooks Chadwick on website for artists active in Cornwall
They had three children, including Louise Read Chadwick, wife of Squadron Leader Marcel CourmesFrederick Delius, Delius, a Life in Letters: 1862-1908, Harvard University Press, 1983, (lire en ligne).
He is known for scenes of Grez.
Portraits of Francis
Portraits of Francis Family
References
Francis Brooks Chadwick on Artnet