James Carroll Beckwith

James Carroll Beckwith was an American landscape, portrait and genre painter whose Naturalist style led to his recognition in the late nineteenth and very early twentieth century as a respected figure in American art.

Carroll Beckwith, as he preferred to be known, was born in Hannibal, Missouri on September 23, 1852, the son of Charles and Melissa Beckwith. However, he grew up in Chicago where his father started a wholesale grocery business. In 1868 agedhe studied art at the Chicago Academy of Design under Walter Shirlaw until the great fire of 1871 destroyed everything . He then went to New York and studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City under Lemuel Wilmarth and later traveled on to Paris, staying there from November 1873 until 1878.

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