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FLY FISHING by Worthington Whittredge (American 1820-1910) Godel & Co
Whittredge was born in a log cabin on a farm near Springfield, Ohio, in 1820. In 1837 he left home for Cincinnati, where first he worked as a house painter, advanced to sign painting, then to making daguerreotype photographs, and, still less than three years in the southern Ohio city, began portrait painting. About 1843 he turned to landscape. His earliest surviving paintings, from about 1845, already reflect the influence of Thomas Cole, Thomas Doughty, and most especially Durand, whom he had met and who had greatly encouraged his ongoing professional pursuit. Following the pattern of serious artists of the time, in 1849 he went to Europe, eventually settling m Dusseldorf, Germany. Though he never actually enrolled at the renowned Academy there, he studied independently with two of its masters, Emmanuel Leutze and Karl Friederich Lessing. After a sketching trip through Switzerland in 1854, he went on to Rome where he lived and worked for an additional five years. When he returned to the United States in 1859, he established himself in New York City and took a space in the Tenth Street Studio Building. He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Design in 1861, and he served as that organization's president first in 1865 and again from 1874 to '77.
