HENRY CLARENCE WHAITE (1828-1912)

Description / Expertise

Henry Clarence Whaite was a landscape painter mainly of watercolours but also of oils. He was a member of the Royal Academy and his views of the English and Welsh countryside can be found in many of the British national art galleries.

John Ruskin described his Barley Harvest, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1849 as: very exquisite in nearly every respect.(1)


1. Christopher Wood, The Dictionary of Victorian Painters, Antique Collectors' Club, 1985.