Minerva Chapman

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Self-portrait (around 1880)
Woman polishing a kettle

Minerva Josephine Chapman (born 3. May 1858 in Altmar , New York ; died 14. June 1947 in Palo Alto , California ) was an American painter of Impressionism .

Life

Minerva Chapman was the eldest daughter of James Lincoln Chapman and his wife Agnes Barnes. Her father was a successful tanner in Sand Bank , a small village on the banks of the Salmon River in northern Oswego County that was later renamed Altmar . Shortly after she was born, the family moved to Chicago , where her father later founded the First National Bank of Chicago .

Minerva Chapman attended Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley , Massachusetts . After graduating in 1875, she began studying art at the Art Institute of Chicago , and a year later she traveled to Europe . There she studied in Munich , Rome , London and finally in Paris at the Académie Julian . Where she was tutored by painters Jean Paul Laurens , Robert Fluery , Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and William Adolphe Bouguereau . Minerva Chapman lived in Paris from 1876 until the outbreak of the First World War and ran a literary salon during this time . She had a close friendship with Mary Cassatt and Elizabeth Nourse . After the war she lived again in Paris until she had to return to the United States in 1925 for health reasons .

In addition to her watercolors , still lifes , landscapes , portraits and the drawings in charcoal and chalk , Minerva Chapman specialized in miniature painting . She perfected this art form from the 17th and 18th centuries again. Chapman has won numerous awards and gold medals at exhibitions in the United States and Europe. Most of her paintings are still owned by the Chapman family.

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SURNAME Chapman, Minerva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chapman, Minerva Josephine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Altmar , New York
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1947
Place of death Palo Alto , California