William Merritt Chase

William Merritt Chase was a leading American painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, associated with Impressionism and known for portraits, coastal scenes, and still lifes rendered with a fluid, light-filled brush. His work moves easily between grand oil compositions and intimate studies, and the occasional print. This archive gathers fourteen of his pieces, dominated by oil on canvas alongside single examples in oil on panel, oil on wood, and etching. The sheets span 1880 to 1910, with impressions up to that later date, and range across subjects from the seaside and a fish still life to portraits such as Carmencita and Edward Guthrie Kennedy.

14 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)