Charles John Arter
1860-1923
John Charles Arter
(American, 1860-1923)
John Charles Arter was born in Hanoverton, Ohio in 1860. He studied in Cincinnati and Paris at the Académie Julian as well as in Venice, London, and New York. He is known to have painted many famous portraits including Pope Pius X. He died in Alliance, Ohio in 1923.
Studied
Cincinnati: Académie Jlian, aris, with J. Lefebvre, Boulanger, 1878-81.
Exhibited
NAD, 1884-85, 1889, 1891-93, 1897; Paris Salon 1888, 1890-91.
Resources
Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 316; Fehrer, The Julian Academy; Who’s Who 138.