The Boston School artists produced portraits which are immediately recognizable due to their subtle warm coloration, refined brush work and strong, moody light. Often, as with this canvas, the light is from the back or side, leaving the main face in shadow. The artist is William Worcester Churchill, and the canvas bears his stylized monogram "wwC" Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts in 1858, Churchill's formal art training began in 1877 when he enrolled in the inaugural class of the Boston Art Museum School of Drawing and Painting. His teacher there was the German artist Emil Otto Grundmann, an educator of profound skill who produced such students as Edmund Tarbell, Robert Reid, and Frank Weston Benson. After studying with Grundmann for some time, Churchill travelled overseas to Paris, where, beginning in 1878, he studied under L_on Bonnat for two years. While still in Paris, Churchill also took lessons from his fellow-Bostonian Tarbell, who was himself in France studying at the Acad_mie Julian. An outbreak of cholera in 1885 influenced many American artists to leave Paris and return home, and once back in Massachusetts, Churchill resumed his training under Tarbell, with whom he remained until 1888. The painting is on a 20"x16" stretched canvas, and dates from around 1900/1910. The new gold-metal leafed wood frame was custom made in our studio. Frame size is 22" x 22" x 1.5" The painting has been lightly cleaned and lined onto a new canvas to strengthen it. It has a new coating of non-yellowing varnish. The frame has a protective backing board. Item ID: 3242AUT Fixed Price Shipping & Insurance on this item =$87.00

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