Artists

NameInfoYearsUpdated byDate
Weber, Sarah Stilwell 1863 - 1935Anonymous12/27/2012
Wilson, Erdix Tenneynotes
Erdix Tenney Wilson was born on October 15, 1831 in Hardwick, VT.  His parents, Samuel and Martha, resided in Hardwick.  The 1860 census lists Wilson as living with his parents in Plainfield, VT and his occupation as "ambrotype taker" (photographer).  He married Julia B. Wentworth in April 1868.   Living in Lancaster, NH, he learned the art of...
1831 - 1901Anonymous12/27/2012
Wolcott, Josiahnotes
Josiah Wolcott was a New England portrait and landscape painter, active from 1835 to 1857.  He exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum in 1837. In addition to the painting on this site of The Flume, he is known to have painted Mount Kearsarge from Rattlesnake Hill (oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches, private collection 1960).  
active 1835 - 1857Anonymous12/27/2012
Waud, Alfred Rudolphnotes
Alfred Rudolph Waud (wōd) (October 2, 1828 – April 6, 1891) was an American artist and illustrator, born in London, England. He is most notable for the sketches he made as an artist correspondent during the American Civil War. Early career Before emigration, Alfred Waud had entered the Government School of Design at Somerset House, London, with...
1828 - 1891Anonymous12/27/2012
Wiggins, John Carletonnotes
John Carleton Wiggins (more commonly known as just Carleton Wiggins) was born to Guy and Adelaide Ludlum Wiggins on March 4, 1848, in Turners (now Harriman), N. Y., west of the Hudson River. Wiggins received his early education in Middletown N.Y., and later attended public schools in Brooklyn. As a youth, he took a job at an insurance company on Wall...
1848 - 1932Anonymous12/24/2012
Whistler, James McNeillnotes
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834 — July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail.[1]...
1834 - 1903Anonymous12/24/2012
Wheeler, William Ruthvennotes
William Ruthven Wheeler was basically a portrait painter, but he did produce some landscapes.   His first instruction came at an early age from an itinerant miniature painter, and he began his profession at the age of fifteen.  At the age of 28 he studied for a short time in Detroit under Alvan Bradish.  He moved to Hartford, Connecticut about 1862...
1832 - 1894Anonymous12/22/2012
Waters, George Wellingtonnotes
George W. Waters was born on March 31, 1832 in the small upstate community of Coventry in Chenango County, NY.  He began his artistic career early and in 1850, at the age of eighteen, Waters had his first exhibit when one of his paintings was on view at the National Academy of Design in New York City.  Though he maintained a studio in New York City...
1832 - 1912Anonymous12/22/2012
Wentworth, Catherine D. 1865 - 1948Anonymous12/16/2012
Werner, Carl Friedrich Heinrichnotes
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner (1808–1894) was a German watercolor painter. Born in Weimar, Werner studied painting under Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld in Leipzig. He switched to studying architecture in Munich from 1829 to 1831, but thereafter returned to painting. He won a scholarship to travel to Italy, where he ended up founding a studio in...
1808 - 1894Anonymous11/12/2012
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