Joseph DeCamp
Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (November 5, 1858 - February 11, 1923) was
an American painter.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he studied with Frank Duveneck in that
city. In the second half of the 1870s he went with Duveneck and
fellow students to the Royal Academy of Munich, then spent time
in Florence, Italy, returning to Boston in 1883.
He became known as a member of the Boston School led by Edmund
Charles Tarbell, focussing on figure painting, and in the 1890s
adopting the style of Tonalism. He was a founder of the Ten American
Painters, a group of American impressionists, in 1897.
A 1904 fire in his Boston studio destroyed several hundreds of
his early paintings, including nearly all of his landscapes.
He died in Boca Grande, Florida.
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