Charles Franklin Chamberlain Oil Painting

Item Details

Charles Franklin Chamberlain (American, 1871 – 1947)
Untitled (Barn scene with sheep), early 20th century
Oil painting on canvas
Unsigned
Artist’s estate stamp to the verso

Charles Franklin Chamberlain was an American Impressionist artist, born in 1871 in Webster Township, Michigan. He studied at the Detroit Academy before traveling to the Art Students League in New York, and then on to Paris where he studied under Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Lefebvre at the Julian Academy. Chamberlain exhibited work in the early 1900’s at the Detroit Institute of Art and with the Society of Western Artists. After returning to Michigan, Chamberlain worked as an architectural drawing instructor at the University of Michigan and operated a chicken and honey farm and painted in his home studio.

Provenance
From the estate of Charles Franklin Chamberlain

Condition

- scratches and paint loss throughout; marks to center and to the lower corners; warping to the canvas; stretcher marks particularly across the upper edge; small holes to the corners of the canvas; foxing to the verso of canvas; item examined under blacklight.

Dimensions

Item #

19DCC031-185