Brock Churchill Hazard

3 FIG. 2 William Worcester Churchill (1858–1926) Woman Reading on a Settee, c. 1905–1910 Oil on canvas 23 x 30 inches Signed at lower right: Churchill Clements/Howcroft Photography time: silver, crystal, paintings and Japanese decorations, the latter reflecting the strong link that Boston maintained to popular styles in Europe. Many Boston School paintings appealed to their audience’s taste for Japonisme, including Arthur Hazard’s Reverie (c. 1905) (Fig. 5), with its ornate japanned secretary, and William Churchill’s Woman Reading on a Settee (c. 1905–10) (Fig. 2), where a Japanese screen located behind the settee adds pattern and richness to the scene. This same screen is part of the composition of Churchill’s Leisure (1910) (Fig. 6), in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Refined interiors like the Taylors’ were as much the subject of Boston School paintings as the sitters themselves. Domestic and studio settings gave these painters compositional and atmospheric control in their paintings, and allowed them to demonstrate achievement in rendering the human form and effects of light through a window. These paintings by Arthur Hazard