Benjamin Champney (1817-1907)
Lived/Active; New Hampshire and Massachusetts

View of Mount Washington from North Conway. Signed on stretcher: Champney – N. Conway.
Oil on canvas. 20″ x 24″ (canvas), 24 ½” x 28 ½” with frame. Excellent condition, in a period gilt frame.
Benjamin Champney was best known for landscape view of mountains, most notably of Mount Washington. As a prominent figure of the White Mountain School of artists, he was revered by his contemporaries. He often worked alongside John Kensett and John Casilear and traveled to Italy with Worthington Whittredge.
Champney was one of the founders of the Boston Art Club in 1855. He exhibited there between 1874 and 1908 at the Boston Atheneum (1842-72) at the American Art-Union (1850-1852), and once at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1863). His works can be found in major museums, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Yale University Art Gallery, Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, and the Butler Institute of American Art.