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James Wells Champney was born on July 16, 1843 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States where when he was sixteen years old he was apprenticed to a wood engraver. He was the son of James H. and Sarah (Wells) Champney.
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James Wells Champney was born on July 16, 1843 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States where when he was sixteen years old he was apprenticed to a wood engraver. He was the son of James H. and Sarah (Wells) Champney.
In 1866, went to Paris, where he studied with Edouard Frere, a genre painter. He had also a year at Antwerp under Van Lerius.
He enlisted in the 45th Massachusetts Volunteers and saw service at Gettysburg. After the war he taught drawing at Dr. Dio Lewis's school in Lexington, Massachussets. He exhibited in the 1869 Salon, signing his pictures "Champ" to distinguish himself from the other American Champneys. Back in Boston in 1870, he returned to France in 1871 in time to witness the excitement of the Commune. He then made a sketching tour of Germany which included studies of the Passion Play at Ober-Ammergau--a topic on which he afterward lectured. In 1873 he accompanied Edward King to make drawings for a series of Scribner's Monthly articles on the "Great South. " They traveled about 20, 000 miles and Champney did more than 500 sketches. As illustrator and war correspondent he visited the camp of Don Carlos, then campaigning for the Spanish crown. In 1877 he accepted the professorship of art at Smith College, a position which he held seven years. For Scribner's he made a sketching tour of South America in 1878, illustrating articles by Herbert Smith. He directed the art classes of the Hartford Society of Decorative Art, and maintained a winter studio at New York. In 1885 he began to make pastel portraits, having among his sitters Hon. John Bigelow, Henry M. Stanley, William Winter, and many theatrical people. He was represented at the Chicago Exposition, 1893, by his portraits of the Rev. Robert Collyer, Miss Suzanna Sheldon, and his wife. He painted many "translations" into pastel of famous masterpieces in the European galleries. In 1898 he did important decorations for the Hotel Manhattan, New York.
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He married Elizabeth Williams.
