William John Whittemore (American, 1860-1955) Painting. Title - Self Portrait, Mrs. Frank C. Carr. Oil on masonite painting. Signed lower right Wm. J. Whittemore. Painting measures 13 inches high, 9.75 inches wide. Frame measures 16.7 inches high,13 inches wide. Tacked on the reverse, Self Portrait, Mrs. Frank Carr, by Will J. Whittemore. In good condition, light inpainting in the left background.

From Askart.com: An American painter, miniaturist and teacher born in New York City, William John Whittemore (1860-1955) had a painting career that would span an impressive sixty-five years. Whittemore received early training at the National Academy of Design under the auspices of William M. Hart and the academy's first instructor, Lemuel Wilmarth from 1882-1886. Whittemore also studied under James Carroll Beckwith in 1885 at the Art Students League. Whittemore went abroad and continued his fine art training at the Academie Julian under the renowned teacher J. J. Benjamin Constant and Jules Joseph Le Febrve for 1888 and 1889. Art organizations, clubs and membership for Whittemore include the National Academy, American Watercolor Society, New York Watercolor Club, American Society of Miniature Portraitists, California Society of Miniature Painters and the Salmagundi Club. The artist began his career in a tight academic style that featured high realism but by the early nineteen hundreds, the artist embraced the looser and more spontaneous painting style of impressionism. The artist's exhibition history is vast with numerous medals, awards and prizes over his almost seven decades exhibition career. Some notable highlights include: National Academy of Design, 1884 to 1949 (prize 1917). Brooklyn Art Association, 1884 to 1886. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1185 to 1908, 1917, 1921. Boston Art Club, 1886 to 1908. Paris Salon, 1889; Paris Exposition, 1889 (medal). Art Institute of Chicago, 1890 to 1928. Atlanta Exposition, 1895 (medal). Charleston Exposition, 1902 (medal). Corcoran Gallery, 1907 & 1910. American Watercolor Society, 1927 (prize). Salmagundi Club, 1927 (prize).