Charles Gifford Dyer

Charles Gifford Dyer (29 December 1851, in Chicago, Illinois – 26 January 1912, in Munich, Germany)[citation needed] was an American painter, known mostly for his architectural scenes of Venice and Greece.

He was born to Dr. Charles Volney Dyer, who was originally from Vermont, worked for the Chicago section of the "Underground Railroad" and was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln.

[2] He and his wife, Mary Anthony Dyer, were part of an expatriate community of American artists which included their friend, John Singer Sargent, who painted a portrait of her during one of their visits to Venice; now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Their daughter, Stella, was a piano prodigy but at the age of seven she moved to the violin and performed throughout Europe as a young woman.

His cremated remains were returned to America and interred in the Dyer family plot at the Oakwoods Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois.