Biography of charles webster hawthorne

Charles Webster Hawthorne (January 8, – November 29, ) was an American portrait and genre painter and a noted teacher who founded the Cape Cod School of Art in

He was born in Lodi, Illinois[1] and his parents returned to Maine, raising him in the state where Charles' father was born.

At age 18, he went to New York, working as an office-boy by day in a stained-glass factory in New York, and studying at night school and with Henry Siddons Mowbray and William Merritt Chase, and abroad in both Holland and Italy.

[He studied painting under several notable artists] at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League.

Among his teachers were Frank Vincent DuMond and George de Forest Brush.

Biography of charles webster hawthorne

But Hawthorne declared that the most dominant influence in his career was William Merritt Chase, with whom he worked as both a pupil and assistant. Both men were naturally talented teachers and figurative painters who were drawn to rich color and the lusciousness of oil paint as a medium.

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