It was an early watercolor organization, following the 1804 establishment of the first Watercolor Society in England called the Society of Painters in Water Colours, the present day renamed
Royal Watercolour Society. The name of the organization was sometimes confused with the
New York Watercolor Club. For instance
Childe Hassam was said to be the Society's first president (1889), but he was the first president of the New York Watercolor Club. ==See also==