Conrad wise chapman biography sample form

Medium: Oil on panel. Signed: Signed lower right.

Conrad Wise Chapman was born in , in Washington, DC and is known for his depictions of the Civil War, in particular a series of thirty-one oil paintings.

Size: 8. Framed Size: Condition: Very good condition. Provenance: Private french collection. Painter, watercolourist, engraver. Genre scenes, military subjects, battles, landscapes, urban landscapes, scenes with figures, still-lifes.

I would like to thank Dr. Michael Schreffler for introducing me to Conrad Wise Chapman and his Mexican landscapes.

Conrad Chapman was the son of the painter John Gadsby Chapman. His family moved to Rome when he was six years old. Chapman returned to the USA in and enlisted in the Confederate army. He was seriously wounded at the Battle of Shiloh in but remained in the army as a cartographer and topographer. He returned to Rome in and later travelled in Mexico where he painted battle scenes between Maximilian's troops and those of Juarez, as well as landscapes.

He eventually moved to Hampton in Virginia, where he died. In Rome Chapman executed numerous paintings on the American Civil War, including 31 showing the forts and artillery units around the port of Charleston in South Carolina.