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1865-1866
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William Merritt Chase begins drawing, producing likenesses of his family and friends.
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1870
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Moves to his own studio in the YMCA building on 23rd Street, New York, and supports himself by painting still lifes.
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1872
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Enters Royal Academy in Munich in the fall, receiving instruction there from Alexander von Wagner and Karl von Piloty. Becomes friends with Franks Duveneck, Walter Shirlaw, and J. Frank Currier.
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1877
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Paints Ready for the Ride, purchased by prominent American art collector Samuel P. Avery. Exhibits three works at Interstate Industrial Exposition in Chicago.
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1880
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Elected president of Society of American Artists (Serves one year).
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1885
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Elected president of Society of American Artists (Serves for ten years).
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1886
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Begins series of small landscape and marine paintings in and around Brooklyn and New York.
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First one-man exhibition of 133 works held at Boston Art Club, includes his portrait of Whistler and is well received by critics.
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1887
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His first child, Alice Dieudonnée is born.
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1888
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Second Exhibition of Painters in Pastel, at Wunderlich Gallery.
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Second child Koto Robertine is born.
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1889
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Portrait of Mrs. C. awarded a second-class medal at Exposition Universelle, Paris.
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First son William Merrit Jr. is born.
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1891
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Shinnecock summer art school opens, with Chase as director and principal teacher.
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Two-year-old William Merrit Jr. dies.
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1896
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Opens his own school, The Chase School of Art, in New York, where he taught through 1907.
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1897
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Important one-man show at Art Institute of Chicago, comprised of 71 of his works.
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1901
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Portrait of a Lady with a Rose awarded Temple Gold Medal at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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Idle Hours awarded gold metal at South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition.
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1904
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His youngest daughter Mary Content is born.
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Teaches summer class in England and takes his students to studios of Sargent, Lavery, Brangwyn, Edwin Austin Abbey, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and John James J. Shannon.
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1908
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Elected member of Academy of Arts and Letters in New York.
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1910
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Receives Grand Prize at Exposición Internacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago, Chile.
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1912
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Travels to London to pose for a portrait by John Singer Sargent, commissioned by his pupils and intended as gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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1915
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Commissioned to paint self-portrait for Richmond Art Association, Richmond, Indiana.
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Serves on Art Committee for Panama-Pacific Exhibition, San Francisco and returns to California to arrange major display of 32 of his works at this international exhibition.
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1916
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Traveling one-man exhibition visits Detroit and Toledo museums.
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