Artists
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Walker, William A. | ![]()
William
Aiken Walker (March 11, 1839 – January 3, 1921) is an American artist who
was born to an Irish Protestant father and a mother of South Carolina
background in Charleston, South Carolina in 1839. In 1842, when his father
died, Walker's mother moved the family to Baltimore, Maryland, where they
remained until returning to Charleston in... | 1838 - 1921 | Anonymous | 04/19/2012 |
Ward, Charles Caleb | ca. 1831 - 1896 | Anonymous | 04/15/2012 | |
Wores, Theodore | ![]()
Theodore Wores (August 1, 1859–September 11, 1939) was an
American painter born in San Francisco, son of Joseph Wores
and Gertrude Liebke. His father worked as a hat
manufacturer in San Francisco. Wores began his art
training at age twelve in the studio of Joseph Harrington, who taught him
color, composition, drawing and perspective. When the San... | 1859 - 1939 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
Wollaston, John | ![]()
John
Wollaston (active between 1742 and 1775) was an English painter of portraits
who was active in the British colonies in North America for much of his career.
He was one of a handful of painters to introduce the English Rococo style to
the American colonies.[1]
Biography
Little is
known of Wollaston's early life. He is believed to have been... | 1710 - 1775 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
Witkowski, Karl | ![]()
Karl Witkowski was an American artist working in the later part
of the 19th century. Karl received
his training in the studio of Jan Matejko (1838-1893)
and like his mentor, specialized in genre and portrait painting.
Witkowski,
like his contemporary J.G. Brown (1831 – 1913), focused his attention on
the young shoeshine and paper boys working... | 1860 - 1910 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
Welch, Mabel R. | 1871 - 1958 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 | |
Wyant, Alexander Helwig | ![]()
Alexander
Helwig Wyant, was born January 11, 1836, in Ohio - and he died November 29,
1892 in New York, New York.
He was an
American landscape painter. Also known as Alexander Wyant, A. H. Wyant, he was
active as an artist in Arkville, New York, and Keene Valley, New York among
other places.
Biography
Alexander
Wyant was born at Port Washington,... | 1836 - 1892 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Way, Andrew John | ![]()
Baltimore
boasted a thriving art community in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Even in the midst of the Civil War, the Maryland Academy provided professional
training for aspiring artists and the Maryland Art Association regularly
exhibited artists' works. By far, the most popular of Baltimore's numerous
successful artists at mid-century... | 1826 - 1888 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Wiles, Irving R. | ![]()
Born in Utica, New York, in 1861 the portraitist Irving Ramsey Wiles first studied art with his father, landscape painter Lemuel Maynard Wiles (1826-1905). In 1879 he followed his father's advice and moved to New York. He entered the Art Students League, where he spent two years studying with Thomas W. Dewing, J. Carroll Beckwith, and William Merritt... | 1861 - 1948 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Waldo, Samuel Lovett | ![]()
The
portraitist Samuel Lovett Waldo was born April 6, 1783, in Windham,
Connecticut, one of eight children born to farmer Zacheus
Waldo and his wife Esther Stevens Waldo. At the age of sixteen he went to
Hartford and took drawing lessons from an obscure painter named Joseph Steward.
He set up a studio there in 1803, but found few clients and... | 1783 - 1861 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |