Frederick J. Waugh - Der Ritter des Heiligen Grals - 1912.5.1 - Smithsonian American Art Museum

Frederick Judd Waugh was an American artist primarily known as a marine artist. During World War I, hedesigned ship camouflage for the U.S. Navy, under the direction of Everett L. Warner. Born in Bordentown, New Jersey in 1861, Frederick was the son of a well-known Philadelphia portrait painter, Samuel Waugh. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Thomas Eakins, and at the Académie Julian in Paris, with Adolphe-William Bouguereau. After leaving Paris, he moved to England, residing on the island of Sark in the English Channel, where he made his living as a seascape painter.