Joseph Hatfield (1863-1928) was born in Kingston, Ontario but is most closely associated with Massachusetts, where he lived in Boston and Canton. Like many American artists of the nineteenth century, he traveled to France to pursue his training in art. He studied at the Academie Julian in Paris with Benjamin Constant, Henri Doucet, and Jules Lefebvre. Hatfield is best known for genre scenes, landscapes, and figures, painted in an Impressionistic, plein-air style. He exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1891 and at the Boston Art Club from 1888 to 1902, as well as at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Academy of Design. His work is in the collections of the Boston Art Club.

Biography courtesy of Roger King Gallery of Fine Art, www.antiquesandfineart.com/rking