WHITTREDGE, Worthington, artist, born in Springfield, Ohio, 22 May, 1820. When he was about twenty years of age he went to Cincinnati, where he soon began portrait-painting. In 1849 he visited Europe, going first to London and Paris, and then to Dusseldorf, where he was for three years a pupil of Andreas Achenbach. He studied also in Belgium and Holland, and in 1855 went to Rome, remaining there until 1859. In the latter year he returned to the United States and settled in New York, where he was elected an associate of the National academy in 1860, and an academician the following year. In 1874 he was president of the academy. He made a sketching tour to the west in 1865, accompanying Gem John Pope on his tour of inspection. Mr. Whittredge is an alert student of nature, whose well-finished landscapes, though doubtless improved by his training abroad, are yet distinctively individual, with no mannerism resulting from foreign influence. His works, mostly pictures of American scenery, include "The Schutzenfest" (1857) ; "The Roman Campagna" and "The Ruins of Tusculum" (1859) ; "The Old Hunting Grounds" (1864); " Berkeley's Seat, Newport" (1866); "The Rocky Mountains from the River Platte" (1868) ; "Forest Brook " (1873) ; "Trout Brook" (1875); "Twilight on the Hudson" and "Sunny Day in the Woods" (1883) ; "The Plains of Colorado" (1884); and "Afternoon in the Woods" and "A Brook among the Hills" (1887).