Thomas Worthington Whittredge

Worthington Whittredge was born near Springfield, Ohio on May 22, 1820 and moved to Cincinnati to apprentice as a sign painter in the late 1830s. After unsuccessful attempts at running a portrait studio and as a daguerreotypist, he concentrated on landscape painting reminiscent of the style of the Hudson River School. He went to Europe from 1849 to around 1859 with the patronage of wealthy Cincinnatians and studied with Emanuel Leutze in Düsseldorf and also in Italy. On his return to the United States, he set up a studio in New York and was elected an Academician of the National Academy of Design in 1862. He traveled to the American West in the late 1860s and 1870s. From 1874-1877, he served as President of the Academy. He continued painting until his death in Summit, New Jersey on February 25, 1910.