Clement Nye Swift

Clement Nye Swift (1846 – March 29, 1918) was an American performer associated taking into consideration the Pont-Aven School and known for his paintings of nautical themes and of spirit in Brittany and Massachusetts.

Swift was born in 1846 in Acushnet, Massachusetts to Rhodolphus Nye Swift and Sylvia Hathaway. As a child, he attended the Friends Academy in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. His early immersion was in painting animals, and he moved to France to chemical analysis painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He with studied next the artists Adolphe Yvon and Henri Harpignies.

After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he moved to Brittany. He arranged in the coastal town of Pont-Aven, where he united the artistic community known the Pont-Aven School. He lived there for ten years, and during this grow old he produced the majority of his paintings. Between 1872 and 1880, he exhibited his put-on at the Paris Salon.

In 1881, Swift returned to Acushnet, Massachusetts, where he took stirring writing, producing a series of stories and poems. He married his cousin Annie Amelia Swift on October 15, 1895. He died March 29, 1918 and is buried in Acushnet Cemetery.