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Richard Caton Woodville

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was commissioned in 1848 by Baltimore patron John H. B. Latrobe. Like other Woodville paintings, it was reproduced as a popular print. Widely acclaimed by American critics, this painting deals with the "low life" environment of oyster cellars and marginal characters that frequented them. Woodville's
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Woodville was the eldest son born to a prominent Baltimore family. He displayed early promise in caricatures of his teachers. He attended the University of Maryland Medical School for one year. Woodville would likely have been exposed to the expansive private collection of Baltimore art collector
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in 1851 to spend time in Paris and London. The American Art-Union came under scrutiny for their lottery fundraising system and was eventually shut down and Woodville lost his American outlet.
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who became a famous British battle scene painter. Woodville also fathered two children in his first marriage. Woodville left sixteen finished paintings, but no personal letters or journals.
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Simon, Matilda. “Richard Caton Woodville.” The Shorewood Art Reference Guide, Third ed., Shorewood Publishers, New York, NY, 1970, pp. 447–448.
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Best known for detailed depictions of contemporary interior scenes, Woodville chose subject matter that was often ambiguous. In 1846, he sent
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great attention to detail is very apparent in this painting. In one of his most popular paintings,
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for the next six years (1845–1851) studying with instructor and portrait painter
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Woodville's success as an artist had a lot to do with his relationship with the
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catalog) – evidently attribute to the father some book illustration by the son
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This article is about Richard Caton Woodville Sr. For his son, see
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who spent his professional career in Europe, after studying in
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In 1845 Woodville exhibited and sold his first painting,
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Some library records, as assembled online at WorldCat –
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Richard Caton Woodville: American Painter, Artful Dodger
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Walters Art Museum holds a number of Woodville paintings
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Richard Caton Woodville Jr.

Baltimore
Maryland
London
United Kingdom
American
Düsseldorf Academy
Genre painting
American Art-Union
Baltimore
Düsseldorf
Karl Ferdinand Sohn
morphine
Richard Caton Woodville Jr.
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Karl Ferdinand Sohn
Düsseldorf school of painting
Emanuel Leutze
Worthington Whittredge
John Whetton Ehninger
Eastman Johnson
Düsseldorf
The Card Players
Old ’76 and Young ’48
American Art-Union
Düsseldorf
London
Richard Caton Woodville Jr.

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