detail is very apparent in this painting. In one of his most popular paintings, Old ’76 and Young ’48 (1849), Woodville provides a glimpse into a tension-filled scene of generational differences between the old Revolutionary war veteran and the young wounded soldier home from the Mexican War. The interesting aspect of this painting is how Woodville continues to show the differences in these two generations through the objects located throughout this interior scene. Patronage Woodville's success as an artist had a lot to do with his relationship with the American Art-Union. This subscription-based organization, which published the monthly Bulletin of the American Art-Union, held popular exhibitions in New York each year. The journal frequently praised Woodville's paintings, and his work was purchased and distributed to Art-Union patrons. Later years Woodville left Düsseldorf in 1851 to spend time in Paris and London. The American Art-Union came under scrutiny for their lottery fundraising system and was eventually shut down and Woodville lost his American outlet. In 1855, Woodville died of a morphine overdose in London. He left behind his second wife, Antoinette Marie Schnitzler and their two children, including artist Richard Caton Woodville Jr. who became a famous British battle scene painter. Woodville also fathered two children in his first marriage. Woodville left sixteen finished paintings, but no personal letters or journals. The Baltimore based Walters Art Museum holds a number of Woodville paintings in its permanent collection, including Politics in an Oyster House, Old '76 and Young '48 and The Sailor's Wedding. A Woodville retrospective exhibition, showcasing the entirety of the artist's career, is being organized by the Walters for exhibition in 2013. Selected works by the artist References External links Bulletin of the American Art-Union 1848–53 at JSTOR New-York Tribune, January 22, 1867, Page 2 (see "Fine Arts") at Library of Congress Warning. Some library records, as assembled online at WorldCat – – evidently attribute to the father some book illustration by the son Richard Caton Woodville Jr. 1825 births 1855 deaths 19th-century American painters American male painters Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni Artists from Baltimore Painters from Maryland Drug-related deaths in England American expatriates in Germany American genre painters 19th-century American male artists