William Chase

William Chase
Conrad Frederic Haeseler, Public domain

(1849–1916) amerikansk konstnär

William Chase (USA, 1849–1916) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a photographer. By year of birth, William Chase belongs to the chapter ‘Impressionism’ in this site’s history of art.

William Chase was born in Nineveh and died in New York City. William Chase trained at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. The teachers included Barton S. Hays, Jacob Cox, and Lemuel Wilmarth. Wikidata associates William Chase with Impressionism. William Chase became a member of American Academy of Arts and Letters. The students included Kenneth Hayes Miller, Georgia O'Keeffe, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, and Edith Dimock.

One of the best-known works is ‘Still Life with Watermelon’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 158 works by William Chase with free images. The dated works span the years 1800–1915. Works by William Chase are held by several collections, among them Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Wikidata links 14 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Impressionism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Susan Stuart Frackleton, Nikolaus Geiger, Edwin Lord Weeks, Julien Dillens, and Carl Fredrik Hill.