 Herbert Chadwick is primarily known as John Herbert Chadwick
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following information is an obituary of the artist and was submitted by Erik Schmidgal, grandson of John Herbert Chadwick:
WON HONORS AS PAINTER OF LANDSCAPES
Born—Benfield House, Marple, Chesire, England 1863. Died 1938.
He studied art in England, Germany and United States.
His landscapes in oil and water color won him prominence. In 1910 he was awarded the seal of the "Philadelphia Sketch Club." His work was often exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts.
At the age of eleven he won a prize for illustrating and printing the Lord's Prayer, awarded by the South Kennsington Museum in England.
As a boy he left England to study floral and design techniques in Dresden, Germany and was later contracted to come to America as a designer on the staff of Scholfield and Mason Carpet Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
As an ardent student of the Philadelphia Sketch Club and Academy of Fine Arts, his artistic talents came under the influence of Thomas P. Anshutz, who at that time and until his death was the major professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Mr. Chadwick returned to England five times to further his study. From his "St. Ives Studio" came many beautiful pictures of the enchanted harbour and the South Coast of Comwall.
Our beautiful Pennsylvanialandscape was the model and source of Chadwick's inspiration.
His student days put him in contact with such famous names in the art world as J. Leslie Little, whose paintings hang at Bucknell; Daniel Garber, famous throughout the Delaware Valley and New Hope; Thomas Anshutz, Professor at the Art Academy of Fine Arts; Joseph Pennell, famous etchings; Fred Wagner, J. J. Dull, E. L. Bryant and a host of other well known American painters.
During his lifetime he was also a member of the Philadelphia Photogmphic Society, a student at the Breckenridge School of Art, Fort Washington, Pa., and New England.
At the close of a brilliant art career a memorial exhibition of paintings and oil colors was held in the gallery of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, January 30, 1939.
Erik Schmidgal, the artist's grandson also wrote:
"Not mentioned in the biographical material: 1) He was a contemporary member of the Philadelphia Sketch during the time of N. C. Wyeth. 2) He was a member of the Etching Society. I own numerous working sketches and a small bound book of pencil and water color sketches and a number of his paintings. I have the original painting and the Sketch Club seal of the 1910 landscape mentioned in the attached material."
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