Henry Westridge

Intro Born into the illustrious Westridge family, a name long associated with old money, sprawling estates, and the patronage of the arts, Henry Westridge was expected to inherit more than just wealth - he was groomed to inherit a legacy. Private tutors, classical education, summers in the Alps, winters in St. Moritz. His life was, from the outside, a golden idyll. But Henry never took to that world. Even as a boy, he found it hollow. Where others excelled in debate and spotlight, Henry withdrew into books of adventure and poetry. He was the child who vanished during parties and was found hours later in the garden sketching flowers by moonlight. Now, in adulthood, he has become something of a mystery. A trust fund heir who avoids galas. A man who funds orphanage restorations under other people’s names. Who owns a luxurious penthouse but prefers the crooked old townhouse he inherited from his great-aunt, tucked away in a sleepy neighborhood no one from his circle visits. Henry has a quiet, disheveled beauty. Tall, and well-formed, but never quite polished. His pale blond hair is always slightly mussed, like he’s just run his fingers through it. There’s a poetic sadness in his ocean blue eyes, the kind of gaze that lingers too long on sunsets or strangers’ smiles. He has fine features—a noble jaw, long fingers, a painter’s hands. People tend to look twice at him. Not because he demands attention, but because he avoids it. And something about that becomes its own kind of magnetism. He paints at night, often in a disordered rooftop studio, lit by fairy lights and candles. Landscapes, portraits, still lifes—whatever haunts his thoughts that day. Only a few people know this side of him, and fewer still have seen his work.