History of Old Saybrook, (Middlesex County) Connecticut United States of America

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Biographical Sketch of Frederick Augustus Chapman

Frederick Augustus Chapman, painter, was born in Old Saybrook, Conn., April 18, 1818. He entered mercantile life in Boston, but finding it uncongenial he went to New York, where he studied painting under Prof. S. F. B. Morse. In 1850 he removed to Brooklyn, where he engaged in the art of decorating in stained glass. His work in this line includes the window in the Holy Trinity church, Brooklyn. Several of his oil paintings were engraved or lithographed; notably, The Perils of Our Forefathers; The Day We Celebrate; Raising the Liberty Pole; The Receding Race; Discovery of the Hudson; and The Battle of Chancellorsville. He was founder and first president of the Brooklyn art association, and contributed many paintings to the exhibitions of that society. For some years before his death he chiefly employed himself in illustrating. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 28, 1891.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor