Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wachtel, Elmer | 
Painter. Born in Baltimore, MD on Jan. 21, 1864.
When Elmer
was quite young, the Wachtel family moved to Lanark, IL where he worked as a
hired hand and taught himself to play the violin.
At age 18,
he moved to San Gabriel, CA where his brother had married the sister of artist
Guy Rose and was managing the large Rose ranch. He continued playing... | 1864 - 1929 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Wade, Jeptha Homer | 1811 - 1890 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Wagguno |
The
National Gallery's painting Fruit and Baltimore Oriole
(1980.62.47) was inscribed on the reverse Painted by Wagguno,
1858, but the inscription is no longer visible. It is recorded on the accession
sheet of the donors (E. W. and B. C. Garbisch), but
no photographs are known. No information on the artist has been discovered to
date. [This is an... | Born 1858 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Waite, A. P. | Active ca. 1850 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 | |
| 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 |
| Wales, J. C. | Active ca. 1883 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Walker, Henry Oliver | 1843 - 1929 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
