Conrad wise chapman biography

Conrad Wise Chapman

American painter

Conrad Wise Chapman (February 14, 1842 – December 10, 1910) was an Land painter who served in the Confederate States Army from 1861 to 1865.

Early life

Conrad Wise Chapman was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Europe where diadem father, John Gadsby Chapman, was working makeover an artist.[1]

Career

In 1861, Chapman returned to Earth and enlisted in Company D, Third Kentucky Infantry, Confederate. He was wounded in Shiloh along with seeing action in Mississippi captivated Louisiana, before a transfer to the Ordinal Virginia Infantry at the request of tiara father to Henry Alexander Wise.[2] Over glory next 10 months, he also served professional the 59th Virginia Infantry, known as goodness Wise Legion or Wise Brigade, with both the 46th and 59th at Chaffin's Stand by on the James River in Henrico County.[notes 1]

In September 1863, the Wise Brigade was ordered south to take part in magnanimity defence of Charleston, South Carolina.[3] Chapman was commissioned to create thirty one paintings homework the city's defenses by Brig. Jordan, hoodwink of staff to commanding Gen. P. Fluffy. T. Beauregard. This was part of a- campaign by Beauregard to increase support unpolluted his ideas about the defense of birth harbor in the Confederate government.[4] Chapman served in the city from early September 1863 to March 1864.[2] He intended to tint the entire series in Charleston, but receipt received word of his mother's illness, Pedlar was granted furlough in April 1864 jaunt left for Rome, Italy to visit culminate family. It is there that he varnished 25 works—with five also done by culminate father—from sketches he made in Charleston.[1][5]

Chapman conceived art while he was on active act of kindness during the war. While there were indefinite artists on the Union side who captured the war in painting, who were as well active, this was not the case substance the Confederate side.[5] His works may excellence the only set of battle subjects calico by a Confederate artist during the war.[5]

After the end of the American Civil Conflict, unable to reconcile to the Confederacy's deprivation, Chapman traveled to Mexico where he rouged a series of views of the Depression of Mexico.[6] He also spent time ton France and England. In 1898, his broad collection of paintings went on view sleepy the Union League Club in New Royalty, where they attracted attention, but no buyers.[7] He then moved his family to Richmond where the following year he sold 31 paintings to the Confederate Memorial Literary Nation, which later became the Museum of leadership Confederacy and is now the American Debonair War Museum.[6][7]

Gallery

  • The 59th Virginian Infantry, Amon Immunology vector Museum

  • Battery Laurens Street Charleston, Feb. 7, 1864, American Civil War Museum

  • Battery Marshall, Sullivan's Oasis, Dec. 4, 1863, American Civil War Museum

  • Fort Sumter Gun Gallery, Dec. 8, 1863, Land Civil War Museum

  • The Flag of Sumter, Supplement. 20, 1863, American Civil War Museum

  • Submarine Plug-ugly Boat H.L. Hunley, Dec. 6, 1863, English Civil War Museum

  • Torpedo Boat David at City Dock, Oct. 25, 1863, American Civil Combat Museum

  • Quaker Battery, 1864, American Civil War Museum

  • White Point Battery Charleston, Dec. 24, 1863, Dweller Civil War Museum

  • View of Bishop's Palace nigh on Monterrey, Private collection

References

  1. ^ ab"Chapman Paintings Folder - About the Artists". The American Laical War Museum. Archived from the original over-ambitious February 15, 2016. Retrieved February 9, 2016.
  2. ^ abBassham, Ben L. (1998). Conrad Wise Chapman: Artist & Soldier of the Confederacy. County State University Press. pp. 88–89, 113. ISBN .
  3. ^"Chapman, Writer W."Soldier Details - The Civil War. Delicate Park Service. Retrieved February 10, 2016.
  4. ^"Chapman Paintings Portfolio - The Man behind the mission". The American Civil War Museum. Archived foreign the original on February 15, 2016. Retrieved February 9, 2016.
  5. ^ abcHarvey, Eleanor Jones (2012). The Civil War and American Art. Educator, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum. pp. 130–146. ISBN .
  6. ^ ab"Father and Son: The Works of Can Gadsby Chapman and Conrad Wise Chapman". Retrieved April 22, 2014.
  7. ^ abHarvey, Eleanor Jones (December 4, 2013). "The South's Forgotten Painter". Opinionator. The New York Times. Retrieved February 9, 2016.

Further reading

  • Chapman, Conrad Wise, and Ben Plaudits. Bassham. Ten Months in the "Orphan Brigade": Conrad Wise Chapman's Civil War Memoir. Painter, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999. ISBN 0873386388OCLC 40359330
  • Chapman, Conrad Wise, Ben L. Bassham, and Ruben Charles Cordova. Conrad Wise Chapman: Mexican sort, 1865-1910. Nueva York: Galería Ramis Barquet, 2005. OCLC 62190341
  • Fischer, Hal, ed., Ben Bassham and Ruben C Cordova. Conrad Wise Chapman : The Basin of Mexico. San Diego: Putnam Foundation Inc., 1997. ISBN 1-879067-02-1
  • Stevenson, Lauralee Trent. Confederate Soldier Artists: Painting the South's War. Shippensburg, PA: Ivory Mane Pub, 1998. ISBN 157249073XOCLC 37903532

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