Adelaide Cole Chase (1868-1944)
- Adelaide Cole Chase (1868-1944)
- Portrait of Mary Shippen Schenck
- Oil on canvas
- 60 x 40 inches
- Signed upper right
- Exhibited: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1920
Adelaide Cole Chase was the daughter of Belgian Pianist, Irma de Pelgrom and Boston landscape painter, Joseph Foxcroft Cole. She sat as a child model for Winslow Homer. Her father served as her first teacher. His instruction was followed by that of portraitist Frederic Porter Vinton. In 1892, she married the Boston-based architect, William C. Chase and enrolled at the Boston Museum School of Art under Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell. She went to Paris to study further in the atelier of Charles-Auguste Carolus Duran and at the Academie Julien under Jean Paul Laurens. Adelaide Cole Chase went on to receive numerous honors. Doll & Richards of Boston gave her solo shows in 1901, 1902 and 1906. She additionally exhibited at the Boston Art Club, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She received silver medals from the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 and from the Pan Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. Chase exhibited with Anna Hyatt Huntington at St. Botolph Club in Boston in 1917 and was given a solo show at the Guild of Boston Artists in 1927. She was an associate member of the National Academy of Design as well as a member of the Copley Society, Society of American Artists and the Boston Guild of Artists.
