Conrad Wise Chapman

Place: Washington

Born: 1842

Death: 1910

Biography:

Conrad Wise Chapman (1842–1910) was a soldier and an artist, mainly known for his paintings of Confederate battlements surrounding Charleston Harbor. Chapman was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Europe where his father, John Gadsby Chapman, was working as an artist. In 1861, he returned to America and enlisted in Company D, Third Kentucky In...