Artists

NameInfoYearsUpdated byDate
Woodhouse, C.L. Active ca. 1869Anonymous02/20/2012
Washburn, Miriam 1865 - 1930Anonymous03/31/2012
Walton, Henrynotes
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 - 1865Anonymous04/03/2012
Weir, Julian Aldennotes
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 - 1919Anonymous04/04/2012
Waldo, Samuel Lovettnotes
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 - 1861Anonymous04/04/2012
Wiles, Irving R.notes
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 - 1948Anonymous04/04/2012
Way, Andrew Johnnotes
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 - 1888Anonymous04/04/2012
Wyant, Alexander Helwignotes
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 - 1892Anonymous04/04/2012
Welch, Mabel R. 1871 - 1958Anonymous04/07/2012
Witkowski, Karlnotes
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 -  1910Anonymous04/08/2012
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