William J. Whittemore

William J. Whittemore (1860–February 7, 1955) was an American painter.

Early life William John Whittemore was born in 1860 in New York City. He learned painting in 1877, under the tutelage of painter William Howard Hart (1863-1937). Additionally, his portrait of Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt (1839-1885), the second wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877), hangs in Kirkland Hall on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Personal life Whittemore was married to Alice Vaud Whittemore (1868-1911), a painter whom he met in Paris. They resided in Manhattan and summered at Robinsfield, their residence in New Hampton, New York. After his first wife died, he married another painter, Alice Charlotte Simpson (1863-1955). He died on February 7, 1955, in New Hampton, New York.