Charles Wilson Knapp (1823-1900)
Charles Wilson Knapp (1823-1900)
A prominent Hudson River style landscape painter, Charles Wilson Knapp became well known for his scenes of New Hampshire, Delaware, New York, and his home state of Pennsylvania. The artist lived in Philadelphia for most of his career, only briefly residing in New York City between 1859 and 1861. During this period, Knapp exhibited for the first time at the National Academy of Design with his Scene on the Housatonic River, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He later showed frequently with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and took part in the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association exhibit in 1878.
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Knapp’s works can be found in many important museums across the country, including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Albany Institute of History and Art, the Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont, and the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
