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 rose to prominence as an acclaimed American artist when his work was exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show in New York City.
35-922: Chanler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Robert Winthrop Chanler (1872–1930), American artist. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (1869–1942), New York lawyer John Winthrop Chanler (1826–1877), New York lawyer and a U.S. Representative from New York William A. Chanler (1867–1934), U.S. Representative from New York, son of John Winthrop Chanler Beatrice Chanler (1881–1946), American actress, sculptor and Cleopatra's Daughter biographer Theodore Ward Chanler (1902–1961), American composer Julia Lynch Olin , American author and Bahá'í Elizabeth Astor Winthrop Chanler , American heiress and socialite, daughter of John Winthrop Chanler . and wife of John Jay Chapman See also [ edit ] Chandler (surname) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
70-464: A hipped roof topped by a square, pyramidal-roofed cupola . The house had a three-bay front facade with five-bay side elevations in the Federal style . There is a central entrance and interior hall which opens into three rooms on each side, and a curved staircase was located at the back of this hall. The staircase returned and entered a rectangular hall with a large skylight (known as a clerestory ) on
105-507: A coma for 12 hours. Chanler's work has been compared to the fantastical works of some renaissance painters. His works involve the use of sculpted gesso, transparent glazes, and gilded finishes to produce ornate and decorative designs. His work still exists in his family's estate, Rokeby near Barrytown, New York, the Luxembourg Museum , and in private collections across the country. In 2010, Chanler's decorative plaster ceiling at
140-650: A personal explanation of his conduct. He was a man of great emotion and great mind." Towards the end of his life, Chanler owned a house in Woodstock , where he exhibited his work in local exhibitions. On April 12, 1893, he married Julia Remington Chamberlain, a daughter of William Chamberlain and Mary Bradhurst Remington. Julia's elder sister Alice was the first wife of Robert's elder brother Lewis . They had two daughters: Dorothy Chanler on November 24, 1898, and Julia Chanler on March 25, 1905. The couple divorced on August 7, 1907. After his divorce from Julia, Chanler had
175-629: A residence in 1965), the square brick gardener's cottage, and a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story gatehouse . Additionally, there is a brick stable designed by McKim, Mead & White , and a private docking facility. John Armstrong Jr. lived at Rokeby following his retirement in 1814 until his death at home in 1843, and is buried in the cemetery in Rhinebeck . William and Rebecca Astor's daughter Emily married Samuel Cutler Ward , brother of Julia Ward Howe . Their daughter, Margaret Astor Ward (1838-1875) married John Winthrop Chanler (1826-1877). The house
210-481: A social center for New York's art community. Like Shinn, Chanler was a personality and a figure in his time. Chanler was a member of the New York State Assembly (Dutchess Co., 2nd D.) in 1904 , but did not run for re-election. In 1907, he was elected sheriff of Dutchess County, New York , and remained in that office for three years. Chanler specialized in painted screens and was a member of
245-430: A swimming pool. His murals and ceiling at Villa Vizcaya began to deteriorate soon after they were installed in 1917. The mural has even survived a hurricane in which the storm surge flooded the grotto, with debris scratching the ceiling. Extensive restoration of Chanler's murals and the painted plaster ceiling at Villa Vizcaya was begun in 2016. As of August 28, 2024, Vizcaya was awarded a $ 750,000 grant for conservation of
280-589: A whirlwind romance with opera singer Natalina "Lina" Cavalieri . They married on June 18, 1910, but separated by the end of their honeymoon, and their divorce became final in June 1912. After the divorce, Lina returned to Europe, where she became a much-loved star in pre-Revolutionary St. Petersburg, Russia , and in Ukraine . Chanler died on October 24, 1930, at an art colony in Woodstock, New York, after being in
315-492: Is currently the home to various artists and writers, including Processional Arts Workshop . It is also the site of the Shoving Leopard organic farm. Ragnar Kjartansson 's ' 'The Visitors' ' (2012), an approximately hour-long video-performance, was filmed on location at Rokeby. Rokeby was the site of an earlier 2007 piece by Kjartansson, titled The Blossoming Trees Performance , during which he recorded himself as
350-602: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Robert Winthrop Chanler Chanler was born on February 22, 1872, in New York City to John Winthrop Chanler of the Dudley–Winthrop family and Margaret Astor Ward 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
385-725: The National Society of Mural Painters . A ceiling mural of buffaloes painted by Chanler is in the Coe House in Brookville, New York . He was also a member of the Architectural League of New York . He painted a ceiling inside the Colony Club , a private member's club located at Park Avenue and 62nd Street in New York City. In 1905, Chanler exhibited a work entitled Au Pays des Girafes (or et argent) at
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#1732798606087420-642: The Rough Riders in Cuba and was wounded at the Battle of Tayacoba . His siblings and he 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' Rokeby Estate in Barrytown, New York . John Winthrop Chanler's will provided $ 20,000 a year for each child for life (equivalent to $ 470,563 in 2018), enough to live comfortably by
455-578: The Salon d'Automne in Paris (no. 328 of the catalogue). This was the exhibition that prompted critic Louis Vauxcelles to label a group of painters " fauves " (wild beasts), thus marking the birth of Fauvism . Chanler's work was featured in the 1913 Armory Show in New York, and he was one of the most acclaimed American artists in the exhibition. The elaborately painted screens he submitted were placed near
490-411: The surname Chanler . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chanler&oldid=1017370893 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
525-538: The 728-acre estate from his father-in-law for $ 50,000. The portion of the property containing the Mudder Kill is said to have reminded Margaret Astor of the glen in Sir Walter Scott 's epic poem, Rokeby , and she changed the estate's name from "La Bergerie" to "Rokeby." Evidence suggests that the overall plan was designed by John Armstrong himself. It started as a rectangular, 2-story structure with
560-571: The Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Studio was the focus of Lauren Drapala's Masters Thesis at the University of Pennsylvania. The ceiling, which had been painted over numerous times, was found to contain vivid colors amidst metallic overlays and glazes. At Villa Vizcaya, Chanler chose to use materials such as plaster of Paris and water-soluble paint, despite the humid climate of Florida, and the work's location above
595-645: The catalogues for the Armory Show, Chanler was represented by nine screens at the New York venue and eight screens at the Art Institute of Chicago , but photographs and written sources, including Walter Pach 's annotated New York catalogue and the Supplement to the New York catalogue located in the Armory Show records and the Walter Pach papers, indicate that around 25 screens were displayed during
630-535: The defense of the city; he consequently retired to finish building his estate on the Hudson River in 1815. The Armstrongs originally called their home "La Bergerie," French for "the sheepfold," as they were raising a large herd of Merino sheep which had been a gift from Napoleon Bonaparte . In 1818, Armstrong's daughter, Margaret Rebecca, married William Backhouse Astor, Sr. (1795–1875), son and main heir of John Jacob Astor . In 1836, William Astor purchased
665-499: The entire ceiling with plaster constellations and then created the windows. Chanler also designed murals for Gertrude's studio in Greenvale, New York , including a seaworld fantasy in the bathroom. The studio is extant and privately owned. Gertrude Vanderbilt and Mai Rogers Coe were perhaps Chanler's greatest patrons, but he received commissions from other wealthy families for decorative murals and screens. By 1920, when he completed
700-562: The entrance of the show (Gallery A), where they captured the attention of the public and critics. Chanler's screen titled Hopi Indian Snake Dance was reproduced in the New York Herald , 15 February 1913. A work titled Porcupines was reproduced on postcard made for the Armory Show. Another screen by Chanler depicting porcupines is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York. According to
735-590: The family's breakfast room, the Buffalo Room (1920). In 1918, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney commissioned Chanler to create a set of seven stained glass windows for her sculpture studio on MacDougal Alley in Greenwich Village . She asked Chanler to decorate the entire space and over a period of five years, he created an immense chimney-piece of three-dimensional flames, floor to ceiling, in plaster with additional inserts of bronze blazes. He covered
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#1732798606087770-430: The front columned veranda and brownstone Renaissance Revival staircase. The mansard roof , tower, and service wing were also additions from this period. The spectacular Gothic Revival library contained within the tower is reminiscent of the work of Alexander Jackson Davis . Architect and Chanler family friend Stanford White was hired to enlarge the west drawing room and to install the clerestory in 1895. A sun porch
805-514: The indoor/outdoor swimming pool at Villa Vizcaya (1916–1925), Deering's winter home in Miami , Florida . Chanler was close friends with Hervey White and a member of White's Woodstock artist colony in the early 1920s. White wrote of Chanler, "He could correlate his subjects in any period, the politics, sociology, and art. He could illustrate with the customs of the populace, he could give incidents for illustration of his points, then break off with
840-547: The main house was built 1811–1815. Construction was interrupted by the War of 1812 when John Armstrong Jr. (1758-1843), the owner, served as a Brigadier General, Minister to France , and later as US Secretary of War under James Madison . When the British burned Washington DC in 1814, Armstrong received much of the blame, as he had previously insisted that the British would not attack Washington and failed to properly provide for
875-475: The main staircase. It features a Palladian window on the southeast face of the second story. A 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story addition constructed of fieldstone was built about 1816. In the mid-19th century William Backhouse Astor enlarged the house from 20 rooms to 48, in brick with brownstone trim, with a semi-octagonal tower on the west side, a north wing, and a third floor throughout the building. Numerous additions were made between 1857–1858. These include
910-610: The mural, as part of the Save America’s Treasures program of the National Park Service. Rokeby (Barrytown, New York) Rokeby , also known as La Bergerie , is a historic estate and federally recognized historic district located at Barrytown in Dutchess County, New York , United States. It includes seven contributing buildings and one contributing structure. The original section of
945-589: The murals in the Buffalo Room, Chanler's work was well known. He later received favorable commentary in The Upholsterer and Interior Decorator magazine for his murals in Mai Coe's bedroom (1921) and in International Studio magazine for his painted screens (1922). Around this time, Chicago industrialist James Deering commissioned him to paint an "undersea fantasy" fresco on the ceiling of
980-421: The second floor. The four front bedrooms were accessed from this hall. There was originally a second straight staircase that led from grade to an elaborate door with sidelights on the second floor which was open to the main hall. Due to later alterations, this feature is now completely enclosed. On the other side of the door there is now a small vestibule, an arched passage, and a small flight of stairs descending to
1015-455: The siblings, Margaret Livingston Chanler bought their shares in the estate during the 1890s. Her grandson Richard Aldrich inherited the estate upon her death in 1963. It is currently owned by the Aldrich family. In 2013, former resident and Astor heiress Alexandra Aldrich (great-granddaughter of Margaret Livingston Chanler) published The Astor Orphan , a memoir set at Rokeby. The house
1050-415: The standards of the time. Several of Chanler's paintings still decorate the mansion at Rokeby. Like Mai Rogers Coe and Everett Shinn , Chanler was staying in Paris in the 1890s and became involved with the art community. When he returned to the U.S. in the early 1900s, he purchased a townhouse on East 19th Street, decorated it with his own works, and called it his House of Fantasy. The townhouse became
1085-568: The three weeks in Manhattan, and at least nine at the Chicago exhibition. Chanler's portrait, painted by his friend Guy Pène du Bois in 1915, came to epitomize the world of money, fashion, and status with which he was well acquainted. Like many women of her class, Mai Rogers Coe was a patron of artists and had a taste for the elaborate, decorative works of Robert Winthrop Chanler. He painted decorative murals in Mai Coe's bedroom (1921) and in
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1120-399: The time. They included: As the eldest son, John Armstrong Chanler inherited the property with all its stock, books, pictures, furniture, and personal property, on his twenty-first birthday in 1883, along with $ 100,000 (equivalent to $ 2,352,813 in 2018 dollars) for its maintenance, however after his marriage began to disintegrate, he moved to Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina . By agreement of
1155-633: Was a grandnephew of Julia Ward Howe , John Jacob Astor III , and William Backhouse Astor, Jr. Robert had 10 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 . His older brother Winthrop Astor Chanler [1] served in
1190-551: Was added in the 1920s. The landscaping was improved about 1846 by Hans Jacob Ehlers, who removed a nearby hill to permit a view of the Hudson River. In 1911 the Olmsted Brothers enlarged the flower gardens and planted an apple orchard. The property also includes a pair of clapboarded wood-frame barns, additional stables (built about 1850 and destroyed by fire), greenhouse (converted to a garage in 1910, then to
1225-475: Was later home to the Astor Orphans, the children of John and Margaret, both of whom died of pneumonia. They left instructions that their ten children were to be raised at Rokeby. Most of them grew up to become well known in politics or the arts. John Winthrop Chanler's will provided $ 20,000 a year for each child for life (equivalent to $ 470,563 in 2018 dollars), enough to live comfortably by the standards of
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