Twachtman, John Henry (1853–1902)

US painter and etcher. His work was influenced by James Whistler and Impressionism, as seen in Araques-la-Bataille (1885). He taught at the Art Students League, New York (1889–1902), and was a founder of the Ten (1898), an Impressionist group. Twatchman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He began as a window shade decorator and studied under Frank Duveneck at the McMicken School of Design, Cincinnati (1871). After study in Munich (1875–77), and living in Venice (1877) and Paris (1883–85), he returned to settle in Greenwich, Connecticut (1889).