Charles Frechon joined the Academie de Peinture et de Dessin in Rouen in 1879 and met Joseph Delattre and Charles Angrand. He then went to Paris and in 188 enrolled at the Academie Colarossi. When he returned to Rouen he painted mainly from life. Frechon painted landscapes in an Impressionist style and was one of the leading Artists of the Rouen School. The School took its name from the fact that painters such as Joseph Delattre, Leon Delattre and Leon Jules Lemaitre and Charles Angrand painted the region, working outdoors in opposition to the official aesthetic and sometimes adopting the Divisionist technique promoted by Seurat and Signac. Frechon's works depicting banks of the Seine, fields under snow and orchards in blossom are executed in pale tones applied with small brushstrokes' In 1887 his first painting was accepted at the Paris Salon. He began also to exhibit at the Salon des Independants and from 1903 exhibited at the Salon d'Automne. He also exhibited regularly in Normandy. His first solo exhibition was held in Paris in 1901 at the Galerie Durand-Ruel. His work featured posthumously in 2023 at the group exhibition "Nineteen Painters from the School of Normandy" at the Maison des Arts in Antony. The front cover of the definitive work on the Rouen School by Francois Lespinasse features one of his paintings, "A Harvest Scene". Museums and Galleries:- His work features in the Art Galleries at Rouen and Louviers