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American painter Conrad Wise Chapman (1842–1910) grew up in Rome and trained with his father, John Gadsby Chapman. Returning to the United States in 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate army and was wounded at Shiloh. Subsequently posted to Charleston, he received a commission from General Beauregard to make a pictorial record of the harbour’s defences. The undertaking produced a series of thirty-one paintings, alongside other scenes of the Civil War. His practice thus brought together observation of places, military subjects and landscape. After the war, he spent time in Mexico. The Trump Card, painted in 1868, is held by the Brooklyn Museum. Chapman later settled in Hampton, Virginia, where he continued painting and died in 1910.
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Oil on wood
Scène de plage, 1880
Öl auf Holz
Catalogue period : 2013-06-15
Published result : 4147 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2000–3000
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