Lifting Fog by Frederick J. Waugh, N.A. Frederick Judd Waugh was born in 1861 in Bordentown, NJ. His first art teacher was his father, the portrait painter Samuel Bell Waugh. When he was 19, he went to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts to study with Thomas Eakins. In the 1880s, he traveled to Paris to Study at the Académie Julian with Bouguereau & T. Robert-Fleury. He then went to the Island of Sark, off the coast of France, where he began his extensive studies and sketches of the ocean, observing the light, shadows, and motion of the breaking waves. In 1907, he returned to the United States after living in Cornwall for a number of years. For the rest of his career, he traveled up and down the east coast, living in places like Monhegan Island, ME, and Provincetown, MA, capturing the movement and drama of the ocean in his marine landscapes. He wrote instructional books on how to paint the sea and his son Coulton Waugh also became an artist.