William Wallace Wotherspoon (painter)

William Wallace Wotherspoon (1821 – Oct. 11, 1888) was an American landscape painter who is known for his paintings of New Hampshire's White Mountains.

William Wallace Wotherspoon was born in New York City in 1821. Not much is known not quite his intimates or education, apart from the fact that his father was a merchant and he took more than the thing when his daddy died. He attended the National Academy of Design in the at the forefront 1840s and frequently exhibited paintings there exceeding the bordering four decades. Beginning in 1846, he spent several years traveling more or less Europe for further informal examination of art, much of it in Rome. Paintings from this time of Lake Nemi and ancient Roman ruins were praised by critics.

On his return to the United States, Wotherspoon was elected an associate zealot of the National Academy of Design, and he became a founding advocate of the Artists' Fund. The painter Eliza Pratt Greatorex studied in the same way as him for a time.

Wotherspoon's style was strongly influenced by the Hudson River School, and many of his primordial American landscapes were views of New Hampshire's White Mountains. He afterward painted the Litchfield Hills Place of Connecticut.

He died in Utica, New York, in 1888.

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