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Charles Vezin

Charles Vezin (1858 - 1942) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, Florida.  Charles Vezin is known for Landscape, townscape, marine.

The following biography is based on material provided by Ada Holmes Doty, grand daughter of the artist.

Born in Philadelphia, Charles Vezin became a painter associated with scenes of Brooklyn Harbor and the downtown skyline. He did not gain attention as a painter until he was in his forties when he began studying in New York with Frank DuMond at the Art Students League.

As a young man, he was educated in the Philadelphia area at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, the Dr. Faires School and also studied in Germany. Returning to the United States, he became a traveling salesman, and in 1895 founded the drygoods firm of Hinchman, Veste & Co.

By age sixty one, he gave up a lucrative drygoods business to devote himself to art, a decision about which he commented: "I shook off the shackles of business to become a free man with nothing to consider but the joy of work."

From 1911 to 1915, he served as president of the Salmagundi Club in New York, and he, who had his   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3171 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

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