“Afternoon by the Sea, Gravesend Bay”, 1888
"After studying art in Munich, refining his eclectic Impressionist style across Europe, and creating an elegant studio on East 10th Street in Manhattan that reflected his flamboyant persona, painter William Merritt Chase moved to Brooklyn. It was 1887. The 37-year-old had just gotten married, and he and his new bride chose to live with his parents at their comfortable Brooklyn home as they began having kids. It’s no surprise, then, that the booming city of Brooklyn was the subject of many of Chase’s landscape paintings. ..."
Ephemeral New York
“Landscape Near Coney Island,” date unknown
2016 November: William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master
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