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This portrait study demonstrates the influence on Chase's work of the fluid brushwork and chiaroscuro, or extreme contrast of light and dark, of 17th-century Dutch and Spanish artists such as Frans Hals and Diego Velázquez.
The painting belonged to Edith Caitlin Phelps (1875-1961), an artist who studied with Chase at the Art Students League in New York from 1892-94. She wrote on the painting's stretcher bars: "W.M. Chase painted this sketch when I studied with him, then he gave it to me." Between 1878, when he became an instructor at the League, and his death in 1916, Chase taught a generation of American artists to paint in his impressionistic style.
The painting belonged to Edith Caitlin Phelps (1875-1961), an artist who studied with Chase at the Art Students League in New York from 1892-94. She wrote on the painting's stretcher bars: "W.M. Chase painted this sketch when I studied with him, then he gave it to me." Between 1878, when he became an instructor at the League, and his death in 1916, Chase taught a generation of American artists to paint in his impressionistic style.
