War News from Mexico
by Richard Caton Woodville
Title
War News from Mexico
Artist
Richard Caton Woodville
Medium
Painting - Oil Painting
Description
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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