biography of John Charles ARTER (1860-1923)

Birth place: Hanoverton, OH

Death place: Alliance, OH

Profession: Portrait and genre painter

Studied: Cincinnati; Académie Julian, Paris, with J. Lefebvre, Boulanger, 1878-81.

Exhibited: NAD, 1884-85, 1889, 1891-93, 1897; Paris Salon 1888, 1890-91

Comments: At various times, Arter had studios in Venice, London, and New York where he painted portraits of many famous people, including Pope Pius X. He was decorated by the King and Queen of Italy for the portraits he had made of them.

Sources: Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 316 (as Charles J. Arter); Fehrer, The Julian Academy