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Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager
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Photo: Courtesy of the Cincinnati Art Museum
Worthington Whittredge, c.1850–51 (Hills no. 30.1.9). Black & white
Black & white
Photo: Courtesy of Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York
30.1 Euro Portraits, Men

Johnson went to Europe in 1849 to learn techniques for creating figure paintings in oil. However, he had been a professional portrait draughtsman in Boston and Washington, D.C. for at least five years before that. In those early drawings he had a keen sense of creating heads using light tones and shadowed areas to create a strong three-dimensional effect. Studying the works of Rembrandt at The Hague inspired him to use the same techniques for his oil portraits. —PH

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Hills no. 30.1.9
Worthington Whittredge
Cincinnati Art Museum title: Thomas Worthington Whittredge, N.A.
Alternate titles: possibly Whitredge, landscape painter; Portrait of Thomas Worthington Whittredge, N.A.
c.1850–51
Oil on canvas attached to board
10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (26.7 x 21.6 cm)
Initialed lower left: E J.
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Record last updated March 27, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Worthington Whittredge, c.1850–51 (Hills no. 30.1.9)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=666 (accessed on March 28, 2024).