James Carroll Beckwith was an American portrait and genre artist who lived from to He worked in the naturalism style.
James Carroll Beckwith was a landscape, portrait and genre painter whose style ranged from academic to impressionist....
James Carroll Beckwith (September 23, 1852 – October 24, 1917) was an American landscape, portrait and genre painter whose Impressionist style led to his recognition in the late nineteenth century as a prominent figure in American art.
Biography
Carroll Beckwith, as he preferred to be known, was born in Hannibal, Missouri on 23 September 1852, the son of N.
M. Beckwith, who was United States Commissioner-General at the Paris Exposition of 1867. However, he grew up in Chicago where his father started a wholesale grocery business. In 1868 aged 16 he studied art at the Chicago Academy of Design under Walter Shirlaw until the great fire of 1871 destroyed eveything (including much of the heart of the city).
He then went to New York and studied at the National Academy of Design (of which he afterwards became a member) in New York City under LemuelWilmarth and later traveled on to Paris, staying there from November 1873 until 1878.
In Paris he took drawing courses with AdolpheYvon[1] an