Emma Chadwick
Emma Chadwick | |
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![]() Portrait by Francis B. Chadwick | |
Born | Emma Hilma Amalia Löwstädt 10 August 1855 Stockholm, Sweden |
Died | 2 January 1932 Avignon, France | (aged 76)
Nationality | Swedish |
Education | Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Académie Julian |
Known for | Painting |
Spouse(s) | Francis B. Chadwick |
Emma Chadwick, née Emma Hilma Amalia Löwstädt (10 August 1855, Stockholm – 2 January 1932, Avignon),[1] was a Swedish painter who specialized in genre scenes and portraits.
Biography[]
She was the granddaughter of Technical School, then studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts from 1874 to 1880.[2] In 1881, after having spent the previous summers on the French coast, she went to Paris to finish her studies at the Académie Julian with Jean Charles Cazin and Tony Robert-Fleury. She had her first showing at the Salon her first year there.[2]
, a miniature painter and printmaker who was originally from Germany. Her father, was a master tailor. She began her artistic education at theShe eventually settled in at the Swedish artists' colony in Grez-sur-Loing, where she met her husband, the American painter Francis Brooks Chadwick. They married and bought an inn there in 1887, which became a popular meeting place for the expatriate artists. Five years later, they built a villa on the same property. While living there, she travelled extensively, visiting Brittany with her friend, Amanda Sidwall, and accompanying her husband on trips to Spain, North Africa, Italy, the United States and England. When an old friend from the Academy, Anders Zorn, came to visit, he remarked that she was beginning to forget how to speak Swedish.
She also gradually switched from painting to etching and became a member of the [1] She exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois and continued to participate in exhibits at the Salon until 1924.[3] A major retrospective of her work was arranged in 1940 by and shown at his gallery.
(Graphic Society) when it was created in 1910.Her sister, Eva Löwstädt-Åström, was also a well known artist.
Chadwick was included in the 2018 exhibit Women in Paris 1850-1900.[4]
Selected paintings[]
Off to Sea
The Card Party
Resting
Portrait of her husband
Francis Brooks ChadwickPortrait of her sister
Eva Löwstädt-Åström
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Emma Chadwick in the RKD
- ^ Jump up to: a b Emma HA Löwstädt Chadwick in the Swedish biographical archives
- ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ Madeline, Laurence (2017). Women artists in Paris, 1850-1900. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300223934.
External links[]
Media related to Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick at Wikimedia Commons
- Biography @ the Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon
- Emma Lowstadt-Chadwick on Artnet
- 1855 births
- 1932 deaths
- Artists from Stockholm
- Swedish women painters
- 19th-century Swedish painters
- 20th-century Swedish painters
- 19th-century Swedish women artists
- 20th-century Swedish women artists