William Chadwick (painter)

William Chadwick (1879–August 3, 1962) was an American Impressionist painter known for his landscape paintings. In 1884 his relations emigrated from England to Holyoke, Massachusetts as his father, Day Chadwick, relocated his woolen goods matter to avoid tariffs, opening the Chadwick Plush Company next his uncle John, and 70 imported workers, later renaming the event the Holyoke Plush Company. It was in Holyoke where the pubescent Chadwick would complete his schooling and developed an fascination in art. Subsequently studying below Joseph DeCamp and John Henry Twachtman at the Art Students League of New York, he became a member of the Old Lyme art colony. Although his artwork was not a contemporary announcement success, following his death it found renewed assimilation nationally in retrospective gallery installations. Today his works may be found in the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut, as with ease as the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. In accessory to their gathering holdings, Chadwick's studio remains extant at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, open to visitors from April to October.