Keywords: Self-Portrait of Richard Caton Woodville.jpg en Woodville was born into a prosperous Baltimore family Having access to the art holdings of Robert Gilmor Jr one of the city's pioneer art collectors he had the opportunity to become familiar with Dutch and Flemish paintings showing domestic scenes of people in interiors Woodville trained in Düsseldorf Germany and remained abroad for the remainder of his career although he continued to exhibit his scenes of daily life in America at the Art Union in New York At the age of 30 he died of an overdose of morphine Woodville appears to have painted this self-portrait while looking into a mirror 1840-1850 The Walters Art Museum Richard Caton Woodville American 1825-1855 Artist PD-old-100 PD-Art PD-US Richard Caton Woodville Uploaded with UploadWizard Self-portraits |