Francis Brooks Chadwick

• Name — Francis Brooks Chadwick • Born — 1850 • Birthplace — Boston, Massachusetts (Etats-Unis) • Died — 1943 • Place of death — Groslay, Val-d'Oise (95) (France) • Field — Painting • Training — Harvard University, Académie Julian • Movement — Impressionism • Works — *Rivière au printemps (Entre 1850 et 1943, RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski • The Bridge at Grez sur Loing in the Springtime (1887), Adelson Galleries, New-York

Born into a family of WASP in Boston, Chadwick studied at Harvard. To pursue his interest in art, he attended the Académie Julian in Paris. He was cousins with the painters John Singer Sargent and Ralph Wormeley Curtis and travelled with them to Haarlem in 1880 and Bretagne. The following year he married the Swedish painter Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick and they settled in Grez-sur-Loing, where he remained the rest of his life, though the couple travelled to other summer art colonies on vacation. They had three children, including Louise Read Chadwick, wife of Squadron Leader Marcel Courmes He is known for scenes of Grez.

• Illustration — Francis B. Chadwick • Illustration — Francis B. Chadwick portrait by his wife • Illustration — Chadwick street plaque in front of Chadwick' house, Grez-sur-Loing, France

• Illustration — Christopher C. Chadwick Father of Francis • Illustration — Louise Read Chadwick Mother of Francis • Illustration — Emma Chadwick Wife of Francis