Thomas Worthington Whittredge Overview

Thomas Worthington Whittredge (1820 - 1910) was a highly regarded Americanartist of his time and was friends with several leading Hudson River School artists including Albert Besnard and Sanford Robinson Gifford.

Whittredge was born in a log cabin near Springfield, Ohio, May 22, 1820. He painted landscapes and portraits as a young man in Cincinnati before traveling to Europe in 1849 to further his artistic training. He studied in Paris, Düsseldorf, and Rome before returning to the United States. Arriving in Germany he settled at the Dusseldorf Academy, a major art school of the period, and studied with Emanuel Leutze.