William Merritt Chase (1849 – 1916)
William Merritt Chase was an American Impressionist, born in Williamsburg, Indiana, (Williamsburg is now known as Nineveh). When he was twelve, he and his family moved to Indianapolis where, in 1867, he began his training, with artists, Barton Stone Hays and Jacob Cox. Two years later, he went to New York and studied under Lemuel Wilmarth, at the National Academy of Design. Chase was an accomplished painter of portraits, still-lifes, interiors and landscapes and was skilled in the use of a variety of mediums. He was also a prominent teacher and taught at various schools and academies and even opened a number of his own, including the summer school of landscape painting in the Shinnecock Hills of Long Island.
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