惠特里奇出生在一个小木屋附近 斯普林菲尔德，俄亥俄 1820。他画的 风景 与肖像画作为一个年轻人 辛辛那提 在去欧洲之前在1849继续他的艺术培训。到德国定居的 杜塞尔多夫学院 的时期，主要的艺术学校，和研究 埃玛纽埃尔·洛伊茨 。在Dü杜塞尔多夫，惠特里奇结识了一些情况并提出了洛伊策为 乔治华盛顿 在洛伊策的著名画作舵手， 华盛顿Crossing the Delaware ， 现在 在 收集 的 英语 大都会艺术博物馆 进入 纽约市 。他是与 Dü杜塞尔多夫画派 。

惠特里奇花了近十年，在欧洲，会议和其他重要的艺术家包括旅行 桑福德吉福 。他回到美国，在1859，他在纽约开始他的职业生涯作为一个解决 风景 在哈得逊河画派风格的艺术家绘画。

 
 过河普拉特，1871，挂在 白宫  罗斯福的房间惠特里奇journeyed在 大平原 到 落基山脉 1865 桑福德吉福 和 约翰- AddisWang / Kensett，Arkansas 。旅行造成了惠特里奇的一些最重要的作品通常长圆形，疏 风景 拍摄的美景和普莱恩斯线性地平线。惠特里奇后来在自传中写道，“我从未见过的平原或任何像他们一样。他们给我留下了深刻的印象。我关心他们比山更…凡越过平原在这一时期，尽管水牛和成群的羚羊成群，野生马、鹿和舰队的兔子，无法不被它的浩瀚和沉默的外表都一个无辜的、原始的存在，他的1876画留下了深刻的印象。” on the隐藏的粉河， 科罗拉多 描绘的前景中的河流和平原，在这幅画的背景落基山脉。

Born in a log cabin near Springfield, Ohio 1820. He painted landscapes and portraits as a young man in Cincinnati to Europe before 1849 to continue his art training. To the Dusseldorf Institute of German settlement period, the main school of art, and the study of Emmanuel Loitz. In D Dusseldorf, Wheatley made some odd situation and put forward the famous painting of George Washington leutze in Leuze helmsman, Washington Crossing the Delaware, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city. He is painting with D in Dusseldorf.
Wheatley - for nearly ten years, in Europe, meetings and other important artists including Sanford Gifford travel. He returned to the United States, in 1859, he began his occupation career as a solution to the scenery in the Hudson River School style artist in New York.
The river Platt, 1871, hanging in the White House Roosevelt room Wheatley odd journeyed in the Great Plains to the Rockies 1865 Sanford Gifford and John - AddisWang / Kensett, Arkansas. Travel has caused some of the most important works of Wheatley odd usually oblong, sparsely shooting scenery beauty and Plain J linear horizon. Wheatley Qi later wrote in his autobiography, "I have never seen anything like them or plain. They left a deep impression on me. I care more about them than the mountains... All across the plains during this period, although buffalo and herds of antelope flocks, wild horses, deer and fleet rabbit, without its vastness and silence of the appearance of an innocent, original, impressed by his 1876 painting." On the hidden Powder River, Colorado painted in the foreground of rivers and plains in the Rocky Mountains in the background of the picture.