Emma Chadwick, née Emma Hilma Amalia Löwstädt (10 August 1855,
Stockholm
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– 2 January 1932,
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),
[ was a ]Swedish
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painter who specialized in genre
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scenes and portraits.
Biography
She was the granddaughter of , a miniature painter and printmaker who was originally from Germany. Her father, was a master tailor. She began her artistic education at the Technical School
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, then studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts
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from 1874 to 1880.[Emma HA Löwstädt Chadwick]
in the Swedish biographical archives In 1881, after having spent the previous summers on the French coast, she went to Paris to finish her studies at the Académie Julian
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with Jean Charles Cazin and Tony Robert-Fleury
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He was born just outside Paris, and st ...
. She had her first showing at the Salon
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her first year there.[
She eventually settled in at the Swedish artists' colony in ]Grez-sur-Loing
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, where she met her husband, the American painter Francis Brooks Chadwick
Francis Brooks Chadwick (January 1, 1850–1942/43), was an American painter active in France.
He was born in Boston and studied at Harvard, and to pursue his interest in art he attended the Académie Julian in Paris. He was friends with the ...
. They married and bought an inn there in 1887, which became a popular meeting place for the expatriate artists. Five years later, they built a villa on the same property. While living there, she travelled extensively, visiting Brittany with her friend, Amanda Sidwall, and accompanying her husband on trips to Spain, North Africa, Italy, the United States and England. When an old friend from the Academy, Anders Zorn
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, came to visit, he remarked that she was beginning to forget how to speak Swedish.
She also gradually switched from painting to etching and became a member of the (Graphic Society) when it was created in 1910.[Emma Chadwick]
in the RKD
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She exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts
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at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
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in Chicago, Illinois and continued to participate in exhibits at the Salon until 1924.
Selected paintings
File:EChadwick-Sea.jpg, Off to Sea
File:EChadwick-Cards.jpg, The Card Party
File:EChadwick-Resting.jpg, Resting
File:EChadwick-Husband.jpg, Portrait of her husband
Francis Brooks Chadwick
Francis Brooks Chadwick (January 1, 1850–1942/43), was an American painter active in France.
He was born in Boston and studied at Harvard, and to pursue his interest in art he attended the Académie Julian in Paris. He was friends with the ...
File:Eva_Löwstädt-Åström_(1864_-_1942).jpg, Portrait of her sister
Eva Löwstädt-Åström
References
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Biography
@ the ''Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon
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# ABELIN – ANJOU (1 ...
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Emma Lowstadt-Chadwick
on Artnet
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1855 births
1932 deaths
Artists from Stockholm
Swedish women painters
19th-century Swedish painters
20th-century Swedish painters
19th-century Swedish women artists
20th-century Swedish women artists