Richard Caton Woodville

Richard Caton Woodville (Senior)
Self-Portrait from a Carte de Visite
Born(1825-04-30)30 April 1825
Died13 August 1855(1855-08-13) (aged 30)
NationalityAmerican
EducationDüsseldorf Academy
Known forGenre painting
Patron(s)American Art-Union

Richard Caton Woodville (30 April 1825 – 13 August 1855) was an American artist from Baltimore who spent his professional career in Europe, after studying in Düsseldorf under the direction of Karl Ferdinand Sohn. He died of an overdose of morphine in London at the age of 30.[1] He was the father of Richard Caton Woodville Jr., also a noted artist.[1] In his short career he produced fewer than 20 paintings; but they were well known in their time through exhibition and prints and have remained prominent in the canon of American painters.

  1. ^ a b Wolff, Justin (2002). Richard Caton Woodville: American Painter, Artful Dodger. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 208. ISBN 978-0-691-07083-4.

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