Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Bartlett, Charles William June 1, 1860 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by Geroge F. Nellist

CHARLES WILLIAM BARTLETT, Artist. Well known for years in Europe, especially 
in Paris and Brussels, where he frequently exhibited before the World War, 
Charles W. Bartlett, noted painter, etcher and water color artist, is a member 
of that growing group of art craftsmen who, visiting Hawaii, have surrendered 
to its charm of color and atmosphere and remained in permanent residence.
  Born in Bridport, Dorsetshire, England, on June 1, 1860, the son of Joseph 
and Ellen (Wallis) Bartlett, he was educated at Clifton in the County of 
Gloucester. On leaving school Mr. Bartlett devoted himself to chemistry and 
metallurgy, but found his love of art so strong that he decided to give this 
up and enter as a student in the Schools of the Royal Academy, London. After 
three years he continued his studies in Paris at Julien’s atelier under the 
instruction of Lefebvre and Boulanger. For some years he specialized in 
figures and did much portrait work in London, exhibiting annually at the Royal 
Academy and the Grosvenor Gallery. His two first pictures to be hung in the 
Salon des Beaux Arts, Paris, were “The Sandalmongers” and “The Dutch Funeral,” 
which led to his election to the Societe National des Beaux Arts. The latter 
picture was subsequently acquired for a public gallery in England.
  Mr. Bartlett was early attracted by the special possibilities and charms of 
the water color medium, and experimented with it until he evolved a method of 
his own which has made him famous among European artists, and representative 
works of his were acquired by the governments of France and Belgium. It also 
brought him recognition in the form of membership of the Societe des 
Aquarellistes Belges. He is one of the twenty-five original members of the 
Societe de la Peinture a l’Eau, Paris.
  Mr. Bartlett went to India in 1913 and spent four years traveling through 
that country, Japan, and China, laying up a large store of material for future 
work. In Japan, during the year 1916, he studied the process of wood-block 
printing and since then he has produced a large number of wood-cuts of 
Oriental scenes. These and his etchings in color are now well known by all art 
lovers in the United States.
  Since coming to Hawaii he has done many paintings of Hawaiian scenes, all 
showing great feeling for atmospheric phenomena, but his chief work in the 
islands has been the development and completion of studies gathered during his 
years of travel in the Far East. These twelve years have made a complete 
revolution in his ideas of art, and the influence of the Orient is strongly 
marked in his present work.
  In 1898 Mr. Bartlett married Katherine Main of Skelmorlie, Scotland.


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