Charles Bosseron Chambers

Charles Bosseron Chambers (1880–1964) was an American painter, illustrator and teacher, born in St. Louis and raised in a devout Catholic household. He took the name Bosseron to reflect his mother's French family, graduated from Saint Louis University, and studied art in Berlin, Vienna and Dresden, with time in Italy. He began his career in Palm Beach as a society portraitist, painting Henry Flagler and members of the Vanderbilt family, and in 1916 took a studio at Carnegie Hall in New York. National recognition came from his religious work, reproduced in the millions on holy cards, calendars and magazine covers between 1920 and 1950. His best-known image, the Light of the World, shows Christ as a young boy and began as a detail of a Saint Joseph he painted for St. Ignatius Church in Chicago, where he also painted the Stations of the Cross. Here: Sacred Heart of Jesus.