Emma Chadwick, née Emma Hilma Amalia Löwstädt (10 August 1855, Stockholm – 2 January 1932, Avignon),[1] was a Swedish painter who specialized in genre scenes and portraits.
She eventually settled in at the Swedish artists' colony in Grez-sur-Loing, where she met her husband, the American painter Francis Brooks Chadwick. They married and bought an inn there in 1887, which became a popular meeting place for the expatriate artists, They had three children including Louise Read Chadwick, wife of Squadron Leader Marcel Courmes. Five years later, they built a villa on the same property. While living there, she travelled extensively, visiting Brittany with her friend, Amanda Sidwall, and accompanying her husband on trips to Spain, North Africa, Italy, the United States and England. When an old friend from the Academy, Anders Zorn, came to visit, he remarked that she was beginning to forget how to speak Swedish.
She also gradually switched from painting to etching and became a member of the Grafiska sällskapet [sv] (Graphic Society) when it was created in 1910.[1] She exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois and continued to participate in exhibits at the Salon until 1924.[3] A major retrospective of her work was arranged in 1940 by Gösta Stenman [sv] and shown at his gallery.
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