Artist
John Linton Chapman
American, 1839–1905
John Linton Chapman was an American Impressionism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Brooklyn Museum. John Linton Chapman was born in Rome.
John Linton Chapman (1839 – May 2, 1905) was an American painter and photographer. The son of the painter John Gadsby Chapman, he and his family moved to Rome in 1850, where he and his brother Conrad studied art under their father. There, Chapman began producing paintings of Italian peasants, scenes, and landscapes.
Although described as a talented painter, he was also "lazy and unambitious" and made a living selling repeated versions of the same works. He left Rome and returned to the United States in 1878, where he lived in poverty due to his exorbitant spending and lack of ambition. He died in Westchester County, New York, on May 2, 1905, divorced and destitute.
Works by John Linton Chapman
Collections represented
Artists in a similar vein
