Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodhouse, C.L. | Active ca. 1869 | Anonymous | 02/20/2012 | |
| Washburn, Miriam | 1865 - 1930 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
| 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 |
| Weir, Julian Alden |
Julian
Alden Weir (August 30, 1852 – December 8, 1919) was an American
impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony near Greenwich,
Connecticut. Weir was also one of "The Ten", a loosely-allied group
of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who
banded together in 1898 to exhibit their works as a... | 1852 - 1919 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Welch, Mabel R. | 1871 - 1958 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 | |
| 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 |
