Adelaide Cole Chase

Adelaide Cole Chase (Boston, MA, 1868–1944, Gloucester, MA) was an American painter of portraits and still lifes. She was a member of the Art Students' Association.

Biography

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she was a daughter of J. Foxcroft Cole, the landscape painter, and of Irma de Pelgrom, a Belgian pianist. Chase traveled extensively with her parents in Europe and the American West as a young girl. At the age of 10, she posed for Winslow Homer, who was a good friend of her father. She also won silver medals at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. In 1960, she became an associate member of the National Academy of Design.

She married William Chester Chase, an architect of Boston in 1892.