Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 - December 16 , 1933) was anAmerican artist and writer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P.Chambers (1827 - 1911), a famous lawyer, and Caroline Chambers (néeBoughton), a direct descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of Providence,Rhode Island. Robert's brother was Walter Boughton Chambers, the worldfamous architect. Robert was first educated at the the Brooklyn PolytechnicInstitute,and then entered the Art Students' League at around the age of twenty,where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Chambers studiedat the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, in Paris from 1886 to 1893,and his work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889. On his return to NewYork, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines.Then, for reasons unclear, he devoted his time to writing, producing his firstnovel, In the Quarter (written in 1887 in Munich )