Charles Roswell Bacon
American (1868-1913)
American painter Charles Roswell Bacon (1868-1913) focused his artistic efforts on the depiction of the landscapes, farms, and towns surrounding New York City and southern New England. As a student, Bacon worked under noted teachers Benjamin Constant, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, and Henri Lucien Doucet in Paris and studied with Theodore Robinson at Giverny, the French village made famous by Claude Monet and his contemporaries. Bacon exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1892, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1901 and 1912, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1907 and also contributed works to the Union Trust Company building and the Nineteenth Ward Bank building, both in New York City. His family included two other American artists: wife Elizabeth Chase Bacon and daughter Peggy Bacon.