Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winstanley, William | 
William Winstanley was an early American painter born in England
and transferred to the United States as a young man. He is credited as one of
the very first American landscape painters and was active in the late 18th and
early 19th centuries.
Winstanley
has been criticized by some art historians for his “sterile
recipes” for creating... | 1775 - 1806 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
| Winegar, Anna | 1867 - 1941 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 | |
| Wimar, Charles |
Karl
Ferdinand Wimar (also known as Charles Wimar and Carl Wimar)
(1828-1862), was a painter of Western Native Americans and buffaloes.
He is
particularly known for his 1855-1856 painting entitled The Abduction of Boone's
Daughter by the Indians, a depiction of the 1776 capture of Jemima Boone and
two other girls by Indians. The painting shows... | 1828 - 1862 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
| Willson, Mary Ann |
This artist
was unknown until 1943, when a New York art gallery discovered a portfolio of
her drawings. Mary Ann Willson is now regarded as one
of the earliest American watercolorists, along with Eunice Pinney
of Connecticut.
An
anonymous letter written in 1850 and signed by "an admirer of art"
accompanied the drawings. It relates that Willson... | Born 1810 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
| Williams, William |
William
Williams (1727 – 27 April 1791)[1] was an
English/American painter. He was born in Bristol, England. His family is
believed to have originated in Caerphilly, Wales just
across the Severn River from Bristol. He began living in Philadelphia around 1747
after time at sea. In Philadelphia he was instrumental in building America's
first... | 1727 - 1791 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
| Willard, William | 1819 - 1904 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Williams, Henry | 1787 - 1830 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Willard, Archibald M. |
Archibald MacNeal Willard (August 22, 1836–October 11, 1918)
was an American painter who was born and raised in Bedford, Ohio.[1]
Willard
joined the 86th Ohio Infantry in 1863 and fought in the American Civil War.
During this time he painted several scenes from the war, and forged a
friendship with photographer James F. Ryder. Willard painted... | 1836 - 1918 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Wicks, Mary | Born 1843 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Whittredge, Worthington |
Thomas
Worthington Whittredge[1] (May 22, 1820 - February 25, 1910) was an American
artist of the Hudson River School. Whittredge was a highly regarded artist of
his time, and was friends with several leading Hudson River School artists
including Albert Bierstadt and Sanford Robinson Gifford. He traveled widely and
excelled at landscape painting,... | 1820 - 1910 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
