Already during his lifetime William Merritt Chase was considered "the American impressionist". He grew up as the eldest of 6 children in Williamsburg. In 1817 he began his education as a painter. Already at the beginning of his career there were several exhibitions of his paintings, even in the National Academy of Arts in Washington.
Then he made a European trip financed by local patrons, which began with a study in Munich. He also spent a lot of time in Venice. In 1878 he returned to New York.
Back in America, he taught at various schools. Soon he was one of the most influential art teachers in the US. His last lesson was a summer course in California in 1914.
Chase was a family man. With his wife Alice Gerson, whom he married in 1886, he had eight children. He regularly portrayed his wife and children.
The artist spent a lot of time in his studio, which became a city-known meeting place for fashion-conscious members of the New York art scene. He had taken over this studio from the painter
Albert Bierstadt and designed it as a gallery for his own pictures. Chase decorated it with valuable furniture, decorated it with stuffed birds, rare and exotic musical instruments and oriental rugs. In 1895, however, he had to close the studio again, since the cost of maintenance were too high.
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.jpg "A City Park, c.1887 by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "The Red Gown, by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Good Friendsn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Still Life With Watermelon by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "MeditationnEnglish: Portrait of the Artists Wifen by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "A Long Island Laken by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Azaleasn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Ring Tossn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Hattien by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Hall At Shinnecockn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "In The Studion by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Gray Day on the Bay, c. 1886. by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Sketch for Columbus before the Council of Salamanca, c.1876 by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Mrs. Margaret Creighton Bateman, Shelter Island, New York, c.1870 by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "View from Central Parkn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Portrait of Louis Betts by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Lilliputian Boat-Laken by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "A Sunny Day at Shinnecock Bayn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Terrace at the Malln by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Park Bench Date by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Idle Hoursn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Octobern by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "An Italian Gardenn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Sunlight and Shadown by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "James Abbott McNeill Whistler by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Shell Beach at Shinnecockn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Portrait Of A Lady In Pinkn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Portrait of Miss Francesn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Portrait of Miss Dora Wheeler by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "View of Fiesolen by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Afternoon Shadowsn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Shinnecock Hills, Long Islandn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Making Her Toiletn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "The Garden Walln by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Memoriesn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Still Life Brass and Glassn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Portrait Of A Ladyn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Interior, Young Woman at a Tablen by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Mrs Meigs At The Piano Organn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Reverien by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Summertime pulling for shoren by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Afternoon In The Parkn by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "The Mandolin Playern by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "In the Studio Cornern by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Still Life with Vegetablen by William Merritt Chase")
.jpg "Dorothy and Her Sistern by William Merritt Chase")
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