Having had little formal art training previously, Hassam was advised by his friend (and fellow Boston Art Club member) Edmund H. Garrett to travel to Europe, and went to Paris in 1886 to study figure drawing and painting at the Académie Julian.
Having had little formal art training previously, Hassam was advised by his friend (and fellow Boston Art Club member) Edmund H. Garrett to take a "study trip" with him to Europe during the summer of 1883. After returning to Boston in August 1883, Hassam returned to Paris in 1886 to study figure drawing and painting at the Académie Julian.