# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-caton-woodville-sr
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:41:46.991Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-caton-woodville-sr"
name: "Richard Caton Woodville, Sr."
slug: "richard-caton-woodville-sr"
description: "Richard Caton Woodville was an American artist from Baltimore who spent his professional career in Europe, after studying in Düsseldorf under the direction of Karl Ferdinand Sohn.\nHe died of an overdose of morphine in London at the age of 30. He was the father of Richard Caton Woodville Jr., also a noted artist. In his short career he produced fewer than 20 paintings; but they were well known in their time through exhibition and prints and have remained prominent in the canon of American painters."
tagline: "American painter, father of Richard Caton Woodville, Jr. (posthumous) (1825-1855)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Caton_Woodville_-_Self-Portrait_-_Walters_372645.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1825-04-30"
deathDate: "1855-08-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.62
  momentum:             4.936708860759492
  historical:           5.882074666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Richard Caton Woodville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Caton_Woodville"
    title: "Richard Caton Woodville"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Caton_Woodville"
    title: "Richard Caton Woodville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B9)"
    title: "Вудвиль, Ричард Кейтон (старший)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Caton_Woodville"
    title: "Richard Caton Woodville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB"
    title: "リチャード・ケートン・ウッドヴィル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1390942"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump