William Frederick Witherington
Illustration — A Modern Picture Gallery, 1824. William Frederick Witherington (26 May 1785 – 10 April 1865) was an English painter and academic. William Frederick Witherington was born in London, he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1805.
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William Frederick Witherington
William Frederick Witherington · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark
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- 1785 · London.
- Died
- 1865 · London.
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- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · Kingdom of Great Britain
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- painter
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- English
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Illustration — A Modern Picture Gallery, 1824. William Frederick Witherington (26 May 1785 – 10 April 1865) was an English painter and academic. William Frederick Witherington was born in London, he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1805.
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Pencil sketch by George Henry Harlow, 1814, http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?mkey=mw05495
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Pencil sketch by George Henry Harlow, 1814, http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?mkey=mw05495
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Except for one year, he exhibited annually at the Royal Academy 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 (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. 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. His grave (plot no.13865) no longer has a headstone or any marker.
• Illustration — The Old Lock, Windsor, 1817 • Illustration — The Dancing Bear, 1822 • Illustration — Fête in Petworth Park, 1836 • Illustration — Mid-Day Rest, Harvest, 1840 • Illustration — The Hop Garland, 1843 • Illustration — Stepping Stones on the Machno, North Wales, 1844
A woman with young children sitting in a hop field during harvesting. Stipple engraving with etching by G. Stodart, c. 1845, after W. Witherington., 1845, by William Frederick Witherington
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