Artist

Charles Sydney Hopkinson

Portrait of Charles Sydney Hopkinson

American, 1869–1962

Charles Sydney Hopkinson was an American artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art.

Charles Sydney Hopkinson was an American portrait painter and landscape watercolorist. He maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building in Boston from 1906 to 1962. He painted over 800 portraits in a direct style with a palette gradually lightening through his career. Many of his paintings were commissioned by U. S. East Coast institutions, especially Harvard University, where he acted as house portraitist. Among his sitters were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Calvin Coolidge, Lewis Perry and John Masefield.

Collections represented

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