Charles S. Hopkinson

American (1869-1962)

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1869, preeminent portrait and landscape painter Charles Hopkinson studied at the Art Students League in New York with John Twachtman and H. Siddons Mowbray and at the Academie Julian in Paris under French painters William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Edmond Aman-Jean. Hopkinson received more than 450 commissions in his lifetime and exhibited at the Paris Salons, 1913 Armory Show, Boston Art Club, Society of Independent Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Corcoran Gallery, National Academy of Design and Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Hopkinson’s works are held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Athenaeum, Brooklyn Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Brown University, Harvard University, National Academy of Design, National Gallery of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the White House in Washington, D.C.