Artists

Name
InfoYearsUpdated byDate
Wendel, Theodorenotes
Though born in Ohio, Theodore Wendel eventually made the town of Ipswich his full time permanent residence. He in Germany under fellow Ohioan Frank Duveneck, and through the great teacher met and befriended James McNeil Whistler. He later attended the Academie Julian in Paris at the same time as Dow and Henry Rodman Kenyon. While living in France...
1859 - 1932Anonymous05/15/2012
Wentworth, Catherine D. 1865 - 1948Anonymous12/16/2012
Wenzell, Albert Becknotes
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 -  1917Anonymous05/15/2012
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
Wertmuller, Adolf Ulrichnotes
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 -  1811Anonymous05/15/2012
West, Benjamin Franklin 1818 - 1854Anonymous05/15/2012
West, William Edward 1788 -  1857Anonymous05/15/2012
Wharton, Thomas Kelah 1814 - 1862Anonymous05/15/2012
Wheeler, Dora 1856 - 1940Anonymous10/15/2012
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
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