TitleWorthington Whittredge
Artist
Emanuel Gottleib Leutze
(German, 1816 - 1868)
Date1861
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 × 24 5/8 in.
Framed: 34 3/16 × 29 1/4 × 2 7/16 in.
SignedSigned at lower right: "E. Leutze / 1861"
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, April 7, 1861
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number767-P
Label TextEmanuel Leutze and Worthington Whittredge became close friends the day Whittredge arrived to study in Dusseldorf in 1849. As he recounts in his autobiography, Whittredge was immediately asked to serve as a model for the steersman and for General Washington in Leutze's Washington Crossing the Deleware. They remained constant companions throught their years in Europe, and, back in the United States, both artists maintained studios in the Tenth Street Studio Building. In addition to this diploma portrait Leutze painted at least two other portraits of Whittredge.Collections
- Artist Portrait Highlights from the Collection
1910
