Charles Henry Turner

Charles Henry Francis Turner was an American watercolourist and oil painter of landscapes, portraits, illustrations, and genre scenes, who from 1877 studied with Otto Grundmann (1844-1890), founder of the "Boston School", at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. Turner was a member of the Unity Art Club and the Boston Art Club, of which he later became president.

Turner was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but lived and worked in Jackson, New Hampshire and Boston, Massachusetts and exhibited in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York.

In the 1880s he spent some time studying and working in Europe, later joining the White Mountain School of painting.

Turner produced some fine, detailed pyrographic artworks. On his trip to the Continent, he was inspired by European and French master paintings and portraits. His love of portrait painting and exposure to early French pyrography, led to his interest in this art form. He created three known pyrographic portraits of European ladies together with a pyrographically decorated oak blanket chest, inscribed on the lid: "This chest decorated in pyrography by me Charles H.F. Turner for my grand daughter Elise 1901".

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