Frank Weston Benson

Once called "the most medaled painter in America," Benson studied in Boston and at the Académie Julian in Paris. He and friends Edmund Tarbell and Joseph DeCamp formed the Boston School, a loose collective of artists who specialized in depictions of elegant young women in well-appointed interiors, and women and children in sun-drenched landscapes. In 1897 Benson and nine Boston colleagues resigned from the conservative Society of American Artists and began exhibiting together the following year as the Ten American Painters, or The Ten, which included Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, and J. Alden Weir.