John Linton Chapman

John Linton Chapman (1839 – May 2, 1905) was an American painter and photographer. The son of the painter John Gadsby Chapman, he and his family moved to Rome in 1850, where he and his brother Conrad studied art under their father. There, Chapman began producing paintings of Italian peasants, scenes, and landscapes. Although described as a talented painter, he was also "lazy and unambitious" and made a living selling repeated versions of the same works. He left Rome and returned to the United States in 1878, where he lived in poverty due to his exorbitant spending and lack of ambition. He died in Westchester County, New York, on May 2, 1905, divorced and destitute.