Charles Allan Winter was born in Cincinnati in 1869. He received early training at the Cincinnati Art Academy with Thomas Noble. Subsequently, he received a scholarship to train in Paris at the Academie Julian with William-Adolphe Bouguereau and also in Rome.

His European studies were from ~ 1896-1898. While there he exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1896 and 1898. When back in the U.S. he obtained a position as a portrait teacher at the St. Louis School of Fine Art, where he remained for three years until 1903.

At the school he met his future wife/artist Alice Beach Winter. These artists later became a mainstay and important figures in the Cape Ann art colony in MA.

Upon leaving St Louis, Winter became a popular portrait...