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Francis Brooks Chadwick (1850-1943)

Meditation

Executed 1898

Oil on board

22½ x 18 inches
57.2 x 45.7 cm.

Signed lower left F.Chadwick

Ex-Collection:
The Artist

Private Collection, England until the present

Exhibitions
Paris, The Salon of 1898

We are grateful to the Wildenstein Institute for providing the above information

Francis Brooks Chadwick was born in Boston in 1850. In 1873 after studying at Harvard, he went to Paris, tt was at this time that Chadwick would introduce Sargent to his distant cousin Ralph Wormeley Curtis. Curtis had been a friend of Chadwick's from Harvard. In August 1880, he leaves with Sargent and friends for Belgium and Holland in order to study the works of Frans Hals. The same year that Sargent would paint his portrait. The artist was a frequent exhibitor at the Paris salon of both landscapes and figure studies from 1882 to 1900.