Oil Paintings
& Portrait Commissions

David Baxter trained four years at Ingbretson Studio of Drawing and Painting, an Art Renewal Center (ARC) Approved Atelier, in the Great Masters Program under the tutelage of Paul Ingbretson.

The Great Masters Program provides a direct link to the Nineteenth Century Boston School* approach to painting featuring:

• Direct Painting
• Academic Draughtsmanship
• Impressionist Color
• Sound Composition
• Painterly Craft

*The “Boston School” sought to combine the truth of impressionist color with good draughtsmanship, sound composition and skillful paint handling.  Its leading exponents included Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, William Paxton, Joseph DeCamp, Philip Hale and Leslie Thompson.  R. H. Ives Gammell (with whom Ingbretson studied) was a turn-of-the-century Boston Museum School pupil of Tarbell, Benson, and Paxton, and later consulted extensively with Paxton, who was himself a product of the French Beaux Arts training. 

After completing his training, David lived in Nashville, Tennessee, painting commissions for clients in various parts of the country.  He has enjoyed participating in plein air workshops taught by David P. Curtis in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Mark Boedges in Burlington, Vermont, as well as returning to Ingbretson Studio for a six-week Continuing Education brush-up workshop with Paul Ingbretson.

He currently lives and works from his Northern-lit studio in Hernando, Mississippi.