Painter.  Born and raised on a farm in the Midwest.  At age 18 Chamberlain went to Detroit to study art.  By 1918 he had moved to Laguna Beach and in that year was a cofounder of the local art association.  He was active there in the 1920s.

(Biography courtesy Hughes, Edan Milton, "Artists in California: 1786-1940," San Francisco: Hughes Publishing Company, 1989.)