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William Frederick Witherington (26 May 1785 – 10 April 1865) was an English painter and academic. Born in London, he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1805. Except for one year he exhibited annually at the
W F Witherington online
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Gathering watercress on the Banks of the Mole, Surrey
(1855 oil on canvas)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Witherington, William Frederick 1785 births 1865 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery 19th-century English painters English male painters Landscape artists Royal Academicians Rother Valley artists 19th-century English male artists
William Frederick Witherington (26 May 1785 – 10 April 1865) was an English painter and academic. Born in London, he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1805. Except for one year he exhibited annually at the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...
from 1811 until his death. He was elected A.R.A. on 1 November 1830 and R.A. on 10 February 1840. He retired as an academician on 28 May 1863.
His early works were mostly landscapes, but the influence of artists like George Morland
George Morland (26 June 176329 October 1804) was an English painter. His early work was influenced by Francis Wheatley, but after the 1790s he came into his own style. His best compositions focus on rustic scenes: farms and hunting; smugglers a ...
(1763–1804) can be seen in the importance he gave to the figurative element in his paintings.
Witherington enjoyed painting English scenery and never travelled abroad. As with many of his works, he does not depict the harsh realities of rural life, but instead records incidents of family life. Like his contemporary, Augustus Wall Callcott, RA, he creates a composition with a lively foreground of figures and animals, combined with a landscape with distant vistas glimpsed through the wood.
He died on the 19th April, aged 79, and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery. His grave (plot no.13865) no longer has a headstone or any marker.
References
*Samuel Redgrave
Samuel Redgrave (3 October 1802, London - 20 March 1876 London) was an English civil servant and writer on art.
Life
He was eldest son of William Redgrave, and brother of Richard Redgrave, and was born at 9 Upper Eaton Street, Pimlico, London. Whe ...
, ''A Dictionary of Artists of the English School'', London, 1878 (2nd Edition)
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External links
*W F Witherington online
(ArtCyclopedia)
Gathering watercress on the Banks of the Mole, Surrey
(1855 oil on canvas)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Witherington, William Frederick 1785 births 1865 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery 19th-century English painters English male painters Landscape artists Royal Academicians Rother Valley artists 19th-century English male artists