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Mid-Day Rest. Harvest Print by William Frederick Witherington

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The Young Picnickers Print by William Frederick Witherington

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Mid-Day Rest. Harvest Print by William Frederick Witherington

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William Frederick Witherington (26 May 1785 - 10 April 1865) was an English painter and academic. Born in London, he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1805. 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 28th 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. As with many of his works, he does not depict the harsh realities of rural life, but instead records incidents of family life. 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.

References

Samuel Redgrave, A Dictionary of Artists of the English School, London, 1878 (2nd Edition)
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Witherington, William Frederick". Dictionary of National Biography 62. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 270.

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