Peintre d'histoire et de batailles. - Issu d'une famille de Baltimore, il partit en Allemagne pour étudier la peinture à l'Académie de Düsseldorf ; il ne retourna aux États-Unis que deux fois dans sa vie et mourut d'une overdose de morphine
Amerikan. Maler
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Further Biographical Data1825-1855
Intellectual ResponsibilityAuteur
Primary Language(s)English
ActivityPersonen zu Malerei, Zeichnung, Grafik (13.4p) (sswd)
HeadingWoodville, Richard Caton used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany
Woodville, Richard Caton used in: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Variant NameCaton Woodville, R.
Caton Woodville, Richard
Woodville, R. Caeton
Sources
Found inLC authorities - http://authorities.loc.gov (2004-11-25). — LoC-NA. — Richard Caton Woodville : American painter, artful dodger / Justin Wolff, 2002
Woodville was born into a prosperous Baltimore family. Having access to the art holdings of Robert Gilmor, Jr., one of the city's pioneer art collectors, he had the opportunity to become familiar with Dutch and Flemish paintings showing domestic scenes of people in interiors. Woodville trained in Düsseldorf, Germany, and remained abroad for the remainder of his career, although he continued to exhibit his scenes of daily life in America at the Art Union in New York. At the age of 30, he died of an overdose of morphine.Woodville appears to have painted this self-portrait while looking into a mirror. [Richard Caton Woodville, Sr. / Walters Art Museum: Home pageInfo about artwork -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard Caton Woodville - Self-Portrait - Walters 372645.jpg]