Theodore Robinson was born in Irasburg, Vermont, and grew up in Evansville Wisconsin.He studied the Art Institute of Chicago the National Academy of Design. In 1876 he left for two years in France, where he studied with Emile-Auguste Carolus-Duran and Jean-Léon Gerôme in Paris. He later taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He spent his last years applying his Monet-inspired impressionism to the American scenery of Vermont and Connecticut. These late American works, favorably received by critics at his first one-man exhibition, at the Macbeth Gallery in 1895, unleashed in Robinson a new and deeply felt emotional bond with his native land.