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JAMES WELLS CHAMPNEY Sketchbook with pencil and crayon drawings.
Sketchbook with approximately 120 pencil or crayon drawings. 255x200 mm; 10x8 inches.
With—A group of approximately 60 additional loose pencil or pen and ink drawings. Various sizes and conditions.
Provenance: Private collection, Massachusetts.
Champney (1843-1903) was an American genre artist and illustrator noted for his portraits and landscapes. He was born in Boston, at the age of sixteen years began his career as an apprentice wood engraver making illustrations for popular newspapers and magazines, and served with the 45th Massachusetts Volunteers in the Civil War. During the late 1860s / 1870s he moved to Europe and studied art in Antwerp, Paris, and Rome, returning to the United States in the late 1870s and settling in New York as a popular illustrator and portraitist.
