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Charles Sydney Hopkinson BIOGRAPHY
1869 Cambridge, Massachusetts - 1962 Cambridge, Massachusetts. Known for: Portrait, figure, mod coastal views.
A portrait painter and landscape watercolorist, Charles Hopkinson maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building in Boston from 1906 to 1962. He painted over 800 portraits in an appealing, direct... Read full biography
A portrait painter and landscape watercolorist, Charles Hopkinson maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building in Boston from 1906 to 1962. He painted over 800 portraits in an appealing, direct style with a palette gradually lightening through his career. Many paintings were commissioned by... Read full biography
A portrait painter and landscape watercolorist, Charles Hopkinson maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building in Boston from 1906 to 1962. He painted over 800 portraits in an appealing, direct style with a palette gradually lightening through his career. Many paintings were commissioned by East Coast institutions, especially Harvard, where he acted as house portraitist. Among his sitters were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Calvin Coolidge, and John Masefield. He began to draw for the "Lampoon"... Read full biography
A portrait painter and landscape watercolorist, Charles Hopkinson maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building in Boston from 1906 to 1962. He painted over 800 portraits in an appealing, direct style with a palette gradually lightening through his career. Many paintings were commissioned by East Coast institutions, especially Harvard, where he acted as house portraitist. Among his sitters were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Calvin Coolidge, and John Masefield. He began to draw for the "Lampoon" upon his entrance to Harvard in 1888, and in 1891, he moved to New York to study at the Art Students' League where he worked with John Twachtman and H. Siddons Mowbray. Hopkinson studied at the Academie Julian in Paris with Edmond Aman-Jean, traveled... Read full biography
A portrait painter and landscape watercolorist, Charles Hopkinson maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building in Boston from 1906 to 1962. He painted over 800 portraits in an appealing, direct style with a palette gradually lightening through his career. Many paintings were commissioned by East Coast institutions, especially Harvard, where he acted as house portraitist. Among his sitters were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Calvin Coolidge, and John Masefield. He began to draw for the "Lampoon" upon his entrance to Harvard in 1888, and in 1891, he moved to New York to study at the Art Students' League where he worked with John Twachtman and H. Siddons Mowbray. Hopkinson studied at the Academie Julian in Paris with Edmond Aman-Jean, traveled to Brittany, and exhibited in the 1895 Paris Salon. In the late 1890's he worked in Cambridge, Massachusetts and showed his paintings i... Read full biography
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A portrait painter and landscape watercolorist, Charles Hopkinson maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building in Boston from 1906 to 1962. He painted over 800 portraits in an appealing, direct style with a palette gradually lightening through his career. Many paintings were commissioned by East Coast institutions, especially Harvard, where he acted as house portraitist. Among his sitters were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Calvin Coolidge, and John Masefield.
He began to draw for the "Lampoon" upon his entrance to Harvard in 1888, and in 1891, he moved to New York to study at the Art Students' League where he worked with John Twachtman and H. Siddons Mowbray.
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