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Worthington (Thomas) Whittredge

Worthington (Thomas) Whittredge (1820 - 1910) was active/lived in New Jersey, New York, Ohio.  Worthington Whittredge is known for Landscape, portrait, marine, and genre painting.

Born in a log cabin and raised on a farm near Springfield, Ohio, on the sparsely settled frontier, Worthington Whittredge was to later establish himself as one of the foremost painters of the Second Generation Hudson River School* painters.  His artwork incorporates the topographical style of the Hudson River School with the use of light and color typical of the French Barbizon* School and Impressionism.  His subjects include the Catskill Mountains in New York and the White Mountains in New Hampshire, in addition to the Great Plains of the American West.

Growing up as a trapper and hunter in Ohio, he had little formal art education. In 1837, at age 17, he went to Cincinnati to work with a brother-in-law, Almon Baldwin, who was a house and sign painter.  Whittredge taught himself portrait and landscape painting, experimented briefly in Indianapolis with daguerreotypes*, and then opened a portrait studio in Charlestown, West Virginia.  However, a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 17267 characters.]  Artist bio

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