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William Merritt Chase Biography

American Impressionist painter, portraitist, teacher and printmaker
born 1 November 1849 - died 1916

Teacher of: Frank Duveneck (1848-1919), Edward Hopper (1882-1967), John Twachtman (1853-1902).
Assisted by: John Twachtman (1853-1902)

William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), American painter, was born at Franklin, Indiana, on the 1st of November 1849. He was a pupil of B. F. Hays at Indianapolis, of J. 0. Eaton in New York, and subsequently of A. Wagner and Piloty in Munich. In New York William Merritt Chase established a school of his own, after teaching with success for some years at the Art Students League.

A worker in all mediums, oils, water-color, pastel and etching painting with distinction the figure, landscapes and still-life, the artist is perhaps best known by William Merritt Chase portraits, his sitters numbering some of the most important men and women of his time. Mr Chase won many honors at home and abroad, became a member of the National Academy of Design, New York, and for ten years was president of the Society of American Artists. Among important William Merritt Chase paintings are Ready for the Ride (Union League Club, N.Y.), The Apprentice, Court Jester, and portraits of the artists Whistler and Duveneck, of General Webb and of Peter Cooper.