William Frederick Witherington

William Frederick Witherington RA (26 May 1785 – 10 April 1865) was an English painter and academic.

His early works were mostly landscapes, but the influence of artists like George Morland (1763–1804) can be seen in the importance he gave to the figurative element in his paintings.

Witherington enjoyed painting English scenery and never travelled abroad.

Like his contemporary, Augustus Wall Callcott, RA, he creates a composition with a lively foreground of figures and animals, combined with a landscape with distant vistas glimpsed through the wood.

He died on 19 April, aged 79, and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.