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| Submarine Torpedo Boat H.L. Hunley, Dec. 6, 1863Conrad Wise Chapman |
Conrad Wise Chapman (1843-1910) was born to an artist father and grew up in Europe after his father moved the family to Rome when he was aged 6. In 1861, he returned to a deeply divided United States to join the Confederate Army, enlisting in the 3rd Kentucky Infantry.
Wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, he was transferred to Charleston, SC, where he was commissioned to produce 31 paintings documenting the city’s defensive works. These works may be the only set of battle art created by a Confederate artist during the War Between the States. The paintings were not completed in the US, but in Rome while visiting his ill mother.
After the war, he became part of the Confederate Diaspora, traveling to Mexico as the first American artist to paint Mexican landscapes, then in Europe. He returned from Europe to Richmond, VA with his family. He died and was buried at Hampton, VA in 1910.
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