Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Way, Mary | 
Mary Way
(1769-1833) and her sister Elizabeth Way (1771-1825) were born in New Haven,
Conn., the daughters of Ebenezer Way (1728-1813) and Mary Taber Way (1737-1771). The sisters were both painters of small
watercolors. Mary Way moved
to New York City about 1811 and advertised herself as a portrait and miniature painter,
as well as a teacher... | 1769 - 1833 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Wylie, Robert |
Robert
Wylie (1839 - February 4, 1877), American artist, was born in the Isle of Man
and relocated with his parents to the United States as a child.
Wylie
studied in the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, later serving a curator. In 1860, he helped found the
Philadelphia Sketch Club, now one of the nation's oldest... | 1839 - 1877 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| White, Stanford |
Stanford
White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and
partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead
& White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms.
He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various
public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found to
this day... | 1853 - 1906 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Williams, Virgil Macey |
Virgil Macey Williams was born in Dixfield, Maine on October 29, 1830. He was raised in Taunton, Massachusetts and, after studying at Brown University, began his art training in New York City under Daniel Huntington. During 1853-60 he studied in Rome with renowned New York painter William Page and became a close friend of Page after marrying his... | 1830 - 1886 | igrkio | 05/16/2012 |
| Washington, William Dickinson |
William D. Washington[1] (October 7, 1833 – December 2, 1870[2]) was
an American painter and teacher of art. He is most famous for his painting The
Burial of Latané, which became a symbol of the
Lost Cause of the Confederacy in the years following the American Civil War[3], and for the work he did in establishing the fine
arts program of the... | 1833 - 1870 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Waud, Alfred Rudolph |
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 - 1891 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Walter, Russel | Walter Bowman Russell (May 19, 1871 – May 19, 1963) was an American polymath known for his achievements as a painter, sculptor, author and builder and less well known as a natural philosopher and for his unified theory in physics and cosmogony. He posited that the universe was founded on a unifying principle of rhythmic balanced interchange. This... | 1871 - 1963 | Anonymous | 11/10/2012 |
| Waters, George Wellington | 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 - 1912 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 |
| Wheeler, William Ruthven | 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 - 1894 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 |
| Wiggins, John Carleton | 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 - 1932 | Anonymous | 12/24/2012 |
