Champney, Benjamin (1817-1907)
- Name:
- Champney, Benjamin (1817-1907)
- Title:
- Founder and president, Boston Art Club, 1855
- Born:
- 11/20/1817
- Birthplace:
- New Ipswich, NH
- Died:
- 12/11/1907
- Death Location:
- Woburn, MA
- Residence:
- New Ipswich, NH
Boston, MA
Europe
North Conway, NH
Woburn, MA - Nationality:
- American
- Occupation:
- Lithographer
Landscape painter
Portrait painter - Father:
- Champney, Benjamin (1764-1827)
- Mother:
- Brooks, Rebecca (1782-1849)
- Spouse:
- (1) Mary Caroline Brooks (1829-1876), 1853
(2) Margaret Stevenson (1841-1895) - Children:
- Kensett, born 1854; died 1939
Grace, born 1856; died 1862
Edith, born 1859; died 1862
Alice Cone, born 1869 - Notes:
- Went to France with Cooke, 1841-46.
Returned to Europe shortly after, until the Revolution of 1848.
Turned to landscape painting in 1850.
Beauty Caught and Kept: Benjamin Champney in the White Mountains, Historical New Hampshire, 51, Nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1996). Concord: New Hampshire Historical Society.
Nancy Allyn Jarzombek, "Founders of the Boston Art Club," Boston Art Club 1855-1950. (Boston, Massachusetts: Vose Galleries of Boston, 2000), 29, 67-68.
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