Oil painting -> List of Painters ->Charles Sydney Hopkinson

Early Days:

   Charles Sydney Hopkinson born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he graduated the Hopkinson School started by his father. He began to draw for the Harvard Lampoon upon his entrance to Harvard in 1888, and in 1891, he moved to New York to study at the Art Students' League where he worked with John Henry Twachtman and H. Siddons Mowbray.

   Hopkinson studied at the Academie Julian in Paris with Edmond Aman-Jean, traveled to Brittany, and exhibited in the 1895 Paris Salon.

Personal Details Name Charles Sydney Hopkinson Place of Birth Cambridge, Massachusetts Date of Birth July 27, 1869 Date of Death October 16, 1962 Field Painting Nationality American

Career:

   In the late 1890s he worked in Cambridge, Massachusetts and showed his paintings in New York at the Society of American Artists and also in Boston. He was a Member of the Boston Art Club and was involved in the promotion of Modern Art in Boston and Cambridge.

   He returned to Europe in 1901, where he visited Spain to study the painting of Velázquez and El Greco and traveled through Brittany, and the Netherlands to see portraits by his "heroes", Frans Hals and Rembrandt

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