War News from Mexico

by Richard Caton Woodville

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War News from Mexico

Artist

Richard Caton Woodville

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Painting - Oil Painting

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Richard Caton Woodville - War News from Mexico - 1848

Richard Caton Woodville was an American artist from Baltimore who spent his professional career in Europe, after studying in Dusseldorf under the direction of Karl Ferdinand Sohn. He died of an overdose of morphine in London at the age of 30. He was the father of Richard Caton Woodville, Jr., also a noted artist. He had a short but intense career, which he produced fewer than 20 paintings; they were well known in their time through exhibition and prints and have remained prominent in the canon of American painters.

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