This painting is typical of the work Chapman produced during his nearly three and half decades in Italy. Here, a woman in traditional Italian peasant costume kneels before a wayside […]
John Gadsby Chapman, American, 1808 - 1890, active Rome, Italy, 1850-1884
Grape Harvest
The Virginia-born painter John Gadsby Chapman is perhaps best known for his large canvas The Baptism of Pocahontas at Jamestown, Virginia, 1613 (1837-40), which hangs in the Rotunda of the […]