Charles Temple Dix (1838-1873)

Marine Artist, of Rome, Italy & formerly Aide-de-Camp to General Dix

He left America for Barcelona in 1865 and went from there to Rome where he settled. In 1868, in Kensington, London, he married Camilla Ottilie Watson, a niece of the famous Anglo-Irish art historian and author, Anna Brownell Johnson, and a pioneer of the women's rights movement in the U.K. Charles had become a promising marine artist (following the Hudson River School) before his untimely death in Rome, having already exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. He died without children.

Parents (2)

John Adams Dix

U.S. Senator, Union General, 24th Governor of New York, U.S. Minister to France, etc.

1798-1879

Catherine Warne (Morgan) Dix

Mrs. Catherine (Warne/Morgan) Dix

1807-1884

Spouse (1)

Camilla Ottilie (Watson) Dix

Mrs. Camilla Ottilie (Watson) Dix

b.c.1845