biografia di Fabius WHITING (1792-1842)

Birth place: Lancaster, MA

Death place: Lancaster

Profession: Portrait painter

Studied: Gilbert Stuart (Lancaster, MA)

Comments: He had only a brief career as an artist. He entered the U.S. Army in time to hold a lieutenant's commission during the War of 1812 and subsequently rose to the rank of brevet major (1829). Whiting is said to have been the first instructor of James Frothingham (see entry).

Sources: G&W; Morgan, Gilbert Stuart and His Pupils, 70-71.