Welch, Thaddeus

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Welch, Thaddeus

A painter of landscapes, portraits, and genre, he depicted wide-ranging subjects in Europe and the United States but is best known for his views of Marin County, California.

As a young child, he crossed the plains with his family and settled in Oregon before moving to California. There, as a teenager, he studied art at the California School of Design in San Francisco and impressed a local patron so much that from him, he earned a scholarship to Munich, Germany in the 1860s. He remained in Europe for several years, becoming close friends and painting companions with Frank Duveneck and William Merritt Chase.

During the 1880s and early '90s, he roamed the United States working on various art projects and in 1889, he visited Santa Fe,k New Mexico where he painted colorful views of the adobes as well as Native American portraits. One of his best friends during this time was John Twachtman, American Impressionist. He did several architectural scenes of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Shortly after, he moved to the Los Angeles area and in 1897, he visited Oregon and painted a panoramic townscape of Portland.

Towards the end of the 19th century, he settled in Marin County, California, and in 1904, he and his artist wife, Ludmilla, spent a season painting in Yosemite National Park.

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