Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Samuel Edwin Whiteman became an acclaimed landscape painter. A student of conservative art teachers Gustave Boulanger, Benjamin Constant, and Jules Lefebvre, Whiteman exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1886 and 1887. In 1889, he was awarded a prize at the Exposition Universelle, the first world fair to be staged in Paris. His work was also widely shown at American venues such as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design in New York, and the annual exhibitions of contemporary art at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC. When Whiteman returned to the United States, he settled in Baltimore and taught at the Charcoal Club. From 1911 to 1926, the Charcoal Club’s annual juried exhibition of contemporary art was an important venue for keeping Baltimoreans abreast of developments in the arts. Whiteman also taught at Johns Hopkins University. The Cabbage Patch, an example of academic impressionism, retains its original reeded frame.