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| Keywords: Richard Caton Woodville - The Sailor's Wedding - Walters 37142.jpg Richard Caton Woodville left his native Baltimore to study in Düsseldorf under the direction of Carl Ferdinand Sohn a noted German genre painter He remained abroad for most of his brief career dying in London at the age of 30 While residing in Europe he painted from memory a number of genre scenes recalling his youth in Baltimore In this example executed in Paris a lively wedding party has interrupted a justice of the peace in the course of his chicken dinner This work illustrates the artist's remarkable powers of characterization and shows his meticulous attention to detail The goat-hair chest his trademark red spittoon and the Franklin Almanac were common household items of the period 1852 oil fabric cm 46 2 55 25 ; Framed cm 59 06 70 17 8 26 accession number 37 142 22135 William T Walters Baltimore February 14 1861 by purchase S P Avery as agent Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1861 Signature Lower left R C W ; Date Lower left 1852 Romanticism in America Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1940 Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf im Ehrenhof Dusseldorf 1979 Nineteenth Century Maryland Life Kanagawa Prefectural Museum Kanagawa 1986 New Horizons American Painting 1840-1910 State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow; State Russian Museum Leningrad; Minsk State Art Museum Minsk 1987-1988 Vice-Versa German Painters in America American Painters in Germany 1813-1913 Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin 1996 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 The American Artist as Painter and Draftsman The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2001 The Dusseldorf School of Painting-Crossing Bridges between Cultures Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf 2011-2012 place of origin France PD-old-auto 1927 Richard Caton Woodville Paintings in the Walters Art Museum 19th-century genre paintings 19th-century wedding in painting | ||||
