Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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Wood, Joseph | 1778 - 1830 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 | |
Woodside, John A. | 1781 - 1852 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 | |
Wood, Thomas Waterman | ![]()
Thomas
Waterman Wood (November 12, 1823 – April 14, 1903) was an American
painter born in Montpelier, Vermont.
Origins
Thomas
Waterman Wood's father, John Wood, came to Montpelier from Lebanon, New Hampshire
in 1814. The Wood family was of Puritan stock, and it was from Lebanon that
John Wood, the father of the artist, married his wife Mary... | 1823 - 1903 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
Woodville, Richard Caton | ![]()
Richard Caton Woodville (30 April 1825 – 13 August 1855) was
an American artist from Baltimore who spent his professional career in Europe,
after studying in Düsseldorf under the direction of Carl Ferdinand Sohn. He died of an overdose of morphine in London at the
age of 30.[1] He was the father of Richard Caton Woodville, Jr., also a noted... | 1825 - 1855 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
Woodward, John Douglas | ![]()
John
Douglas Woodward (12 July 1846 – 1924) was an American landscape artist
and illustrator described by Joseph Pennell as one of the country's
"best-known painters and illustrators".
He produced
hundreds of scenes of Europe, the Holy Land, and the United States, many of
which were reproduced in popular magazines of the day.[1]
Life and... | 1846 - 1924 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
Wright, James Henry | 1813 - 1883 | Alexander Lusher | 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 |
Ward, Edgar Melville | ![]()
Edgar
Melville Ward (1839–1915) was an American genre painter.
Ward was
born in Urbana, Ohio. His elder brother was the sculptor, John Quincy Adams
Ward. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and in Paris
under Cabanel. In 1883 he became a member of the Institut de France and was made a professor there. His
paintings which are... | 1839 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Weir, Robert W. | ![]()
Robert
Walter Weir (June 18, 1803 - May 1, 1889) was an American artist, best known as
an educator, and as an historical painter. He was considered an artist of the
Hudson River school,[1] was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829,
and an instructor at the United States Military Academy. Among his better-known
works are: The Embarkation... | 1803 - 1889 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Waite, A. P. | Active ca. 1850 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 |