Robert Winthrop Chanler
| Robert Winthrop Chanler | |
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| Born | February 22, 1872 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | October 24, 1930 (aged 58) , U.S. |
| Occupation | artist |
| Spouse(s) | Julia Remington Chamberlain (m. 1893–1907; divorced) Natalina Cavalieri (m. 1910–1912; divorced) |
| Children | Julia Chanler Dorothy Chanler |
| Parent(s) |
John Winthrop Chanler Margaret Astor Ward |
| Relatives |
Samuel Cutler Ward (grandfather) William Astor Chanler (brother) Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (brother) John Armstrong Chaloner (brother) |
Robert Winthrop Chanler (February 22, 1872 – October 24, 1930) was an American artist and member of the Astor and Dudley–Winthrop families. A designer and muralist, Chanler received much of his art training in France at the École des Beaux-Arts, and there his most famous work, titled "Giraffes", was completed in 1905 and later purchased by the French Government. Robert D. Coe, who studied with him, described Chanler as being "eccentric and almost bizarre."
Chanler was born on February 22, 1872 in New York City to John Winthrop Chanler (1826–1877) of the Dudley–Winthrop family and Margaret Astor Ward (1838–1875) of the Astor family. Through his father, he was a great-great-grandson of Peter Stuyvesant and a great-great-great-great-grandson of Wait Winthrop and Joseph Dudley. Through his mother, he was a grandnephew of Julia Ward (1819–1910), John Jacob Astor III (1822–1890), and William Backhouse Astor, Jr. (1829–1892). Robert had nine brothers and sisters, including politicians Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler and William Astor Chanler. His sister Margaret Livingston Chanler served as a nurse with the American Red Cross during the Spanish–American War. Robert's eldest brother John Armstrong "Archie" Chanler married novelist Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy. He and his siblings became orphans after the death of their mother in 1875 and their father in 1877, both to pneumonia. The children were raised at their parents' estate in Rokeby in Barrytown, New York.
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