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|  Born in Boston and growing up in Winchester, Massachusetts, Adelaide Chase became known for her portraits and decorative floral still life. She was the daughter of Belgian pianist Irma de Pelgrom and Boston painter Joseph Foxcroft Cole. Winslow Homer used her as a child model.
Her first art teachers were her father and Frederic Porter Vinton. In 1892, she married Boston architect William C Chase, and she studied at the Boston Museum School* of Art with Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell. She then went to Paris as a student of Charles Carolus-Duran and Jean-Paul Laurens.
In 1901, she had her first one-person exhibition, and from that time, she exhibited extensively including the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exhibition* in St. Louis where she won a silver medal; the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exhibition* in San Francisco; and from 1899 to 1924, fourteen annual exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy*. In 1906, as a member of the Society of American Artists*, which merged with the National Academy of Design, she became and Associate member of the Academy, where from 1905 to 1922, she exhibited in ten annual exhibitions.
Chase died in Gloucester, Massachusetts on September 5, 1944.
Sources:
Erica Hirshler, A Studio of Her Own
Paul Sternberg, Sr., Art by American Women
John Davis, "Adelaide Cole Chase", Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design
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|  Note from Frank Janney:
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possess a fine portrait by this artist. The subject is my great aunt
Rosamond Hillsmith of Boston as a young girl. She was the niece of
Frank Hillsmith, an excellent turn of the century illuminist and
well-known architect. I assume he was a friend of Adelaide C Chase, as
they had much in common.
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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