Charles Baskerville

Charles Baskerville, Jr (16 April 1896 – 20 November 1994) was an American artist.

Baskerville was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, the son of Charles Baskerville and Mary Boylan Snow. He moved to New York with his family. He later studied at Cornell University, where he was the art director for the university yearbook and The Cornell University Widow, a satire magazine. His studies were interrupted by World War I, in which he served as a lieutenant in the Rainbow Division and earned a Silver Star for gallantry. While convalescing from a wound, he made sketches of his fellow soldiers; some of these sketches were published in Scribner's Magazine.

He is described as "an old-school portrait painter... [who] never owned a camera in his life". Among the subjects of his portraits were Jawaharlal Nehru, Bernard Baruch, William S. Paley, Wallis Simpson, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Paul Mellon, Richard Rodgers, and Helen Hayes. Apart from portraits, he also painted murals, one of which is in the conference room of the Joint Committee on Military Affairs of the United States Congress. He died in 1994, at the age of 98, in Manhattan.