William Merritt Chase

Having realised the depths of my ignorance about William Merritt Chase, whose lovely Study of a Young Girl I showed you last week, I thought I'd better give him another slot. Of course he was terribly famous and wonderfully prolific, a teacher as well as a painter, and the founder of the Chase School of Art, later renamed the New York School of Art. This painting is called Peonies and so it should be as the flowers rather dominate over the composition. Loads of his paintings can be seen here, and I may well show you another before too long.