Background
Linson, Corwin Knapp was born on February 25, 1864 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of William Van Keuren and Maria Louisa (Knapp) Linson.
Linson, Corwin Knapp was born on February 25, 1864 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of William Van Keuren and Maria Louisa (Knapp) Linson.
Studied at Academy Julian and Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris (1st prize in composition, also honorable mention in composition and drawing). Pupil of Gerome and Lefebvre and Jean Paul Laurens.
Doctorate. Honorary William A. Prickitt, United States consul, at Reims, France, July 20, 1898. Children—Elizabeth Louise, Rosalind Van Keuren. Returned to the United States, 1901.
Designed 5 memorial windows in Baptist Temple, Brooklyn, memorial window in Presbyterian Church, Rumson, New Jersey Exhbtd.
National Academy Design. New York Water Color Club.
New York Water Color Society. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, District of Columbia.
Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts. Buffalo Exposition, 1900. Saint Louis Exposition, 1904, et cetera
Portraits: Mark Hopkins, former president Williams College.
Honorary Edmund Wilson, former attorney general State of New Jersey. Doctor Hunter McGuire.
Colonel Charles Jefferson Wright, founder of New York Military Academy. John Willard Raught in Scranton Museum.
Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior, and the Bible is the divinely inspired word of God that serves as the final written authority for living out the Christian faith.
Member of Allied Artists of America, (resigned).
Married Annie G. Prickitt. Children: Elizabeth Louise, Rosalind Van Keuren.