Emile Albert Gruppé was an American painter born in Rochester, New York to Helen and Charles P. Gruppé. He lived the early years of his life in the Netherlands as his father, Charles Paul Gruppe, painted with the Hague school of art and acted as a dealer for the Dutch painters in the US. The family returned permanently to the states around 1913 when rumblings of World War I were brewing. All of Emile’s siblings established themselves in the arts, Paulo as a cellist, Karl as a sculptor and Virginia as a water colorist. Of his children, Robert C. Gruppé, also a painter, maintains The Gruppé Gallery at Rocky Neck, Gloucester, MA, while Emilie Gruppe Alexander maintains the Emile A. Gruppe Gallery, in Jericho, VT. Both galleries feature Emile's paintings among others.
