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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio , he studied with Frank Duveneck in that city. In the second half of the 1870s he went with Duveneck and fellow students to the Royal Academy Of Munich , then spent time in Florence , Italy , returning to Boston in 1883 .

He became known as a member of the Boston School led by Edmund Charles Tarbell , focussing on figure painting, and in the 1890s adopting the style of Tonalism . He was a founder of the Ten American Painters , a group of American Impressionist s, in 1897 .

A 1904 fire in his Boston studio destroyed several hundreds of his early paintings, including nearly all of his landscapes.

He died in Boca Grande, Florida .


REFERENCE

  • Laurene Buckley, ''Joseph DeCamp: The Boston Technician'' (Prestel Publishing, 1995) ISBN 3791316044