Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Wenzell, Albert Beck |
The Bell Époche, prior to World War I, was a prosperous and
extravagant era when royalty governed most of Europe. At the same time in the
United States, great fortunes were being made through unfettered trusts and
monopolies, creating a class of Nouveau Riche. This ambitious society of Robber
Barons and their social climbing wives was just as... | 1864 - 1917 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Wertmuller, Adolf Ulrich |
Adolf Ulrik
Wertmüller (February 18, 1751 — October 5, 1811) was a Swedish
painter whose notable works include Danaë receiving Jupiter in a Shower of
Gold.
Wertmüller
was born in Stockholm and studied art at home before moving to Paris in 1772 to
study under his cousin Alexander Roslin and French painter Joseph-Marie
Vien.[1] On July 30,... | 1751 - 1811 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Werner, Carl Friedrich Heinrich |
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 - 1894 | Anonymous | 11/12/2012 |
| Ward, Edgar Melville |
Edgar
Melville Ward (1839–1915) was an American genre painter.
Ward was
born in Urbana, Ohio. His elder brother was the sculptor, John Quincy Adams
Ward. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and in Paris
under Cabanel. In 1883 he became a member of the Institut de France and was made a professor there. His
paintings which are... | 1839 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| White, Edwin |
Edwin White
(born, South Hadley, Massachusetts 1817; died Saratoga Springs, New York 1877)
was an American painter who studied in Paris, Rome, and Florence and later
taught at the National Academy of Design, in New York.
Works by
White, mostly in storage, are in the collections of Yale; The Metropolitan
Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;... | 1817 - 1877 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Waller, Frank |
A
little-known artist of the 19th century, Frank Waller was born June 12, 1842 in
New York City. He was a painter, educator, and etcher who lived in Morristown,
New Jersey during the latter part of his life.
At 15 years
of age, Waller studied drawing at the Free Academy of the City of New York, now
known as the City College of New York, which he... | 1842 - 1923 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Walton, Henry |
Henry
Walton made elaborate, highly detailed oil and watercolor portraits and
miniatures as well as views of towns and buildings, in the literal, rather
stiff style of American provincial artists of the first half of the nineteenth
century. Like many such artists, Walton is a relatively obscure figure. He was
born in Ballston, New York, the son of... | 1804 - 1865 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
| Walker, James |
James
Walker, born on June 3, 1819 in Northamptonshire, England, was a historical
painter whose works can be found in the permanent collections of the U. S. War
Department Building, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the California
Historical Society and the Tennessee State Museum among others. Not much is
known of his training, although it has... | 1819 - 1889 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
