Background
William John Whittemore was born in 1860 in New York City. His father was Charles Whittemore (1826-1904) and his mother, Maria Frances Kimball Whittemore (1826-1920).
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William Whittemore
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From 1882 to 1886, he studied painting at the National Academy of Design under the tutelage of Walter Satterlee (1844-1908), and at the Art Students League of New York under James Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917). From 1888 to 1889, he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris under Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911) and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845-1902).
Career
He learned painting in 1877, under the tutelage of painter William Howard Hart (1863-1937). He taught miniature painting at the Art Students League of New York from 1900 to 1902 and at the Young Men’s Christian Association of Greater New New York His portrait of William Stryker Gummere, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, hangs in the New Jersey State House in Trenton, New Jersey.
Additionally, his portrait of Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt (1839-1885), the second wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877), hangs in Kirkland Hall on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Personal life
They resided in Manhattan and summered at Robinsfield, their residencce in New Hampton, New New York He died in 1955 in New Hampton, New New York
He was buried in the Fitzwilliam Village Cemetery in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire.
Achievements
Membership
He became an Associate at the National Academy of Design in 1897 and became a founding member of the American Society of Miniature Painters in 1899.
