Artists
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Weber, Gottlieb Daniel Paul | ![]()
Gottlieb
Daniel Paul Weber (19 January 1823-12 October 1916) was a German artist.
He was born
in Darmstadt. He studied art in Frankfurt, and in 1848 came to the United
States, settling in Philadelphia. In 1858 he went to Darmstadt, where he was
appointed court painter. Among those of his works that are owned in the United
States are “A Scene in... | 1823 - 1916 | Anonymous | 07/18/2012 |
Weldon, Charles Dater | 1855 - 1935 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 | |
Wheeler, Dora | 1856 - 1940 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 | |
Walter, Russel | ![]() Walter Bowman Russell (May 19, 1871 – May 19, 1963) was an American polymath known for his achievements as a painter, sculptor, author and builder and less well known as a natural philosopher and for his unified theory in physics and cosmogony. He posited that the universe was founded on a unifying principle of rhythmic balanced interchange. This... | 1871 - 1963 | Anonymous | 11/10/2012 |
Werner, Carl Friedrich Heinrich | ![]()
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 - 1894 | Anonymous | 11/12/2012 |
Wentworth, Catherine D. | 1865 - 1948 | Anonymous | 12/16/2012 | |
Waters, George Wellington | ![]() George W. Waters was born on March 31, 1832 in the small upstate community of Coventry in Chenango County, NY. He began his artistic career early and in 1850, at the age of eighteen, Waters had his first exhibit when one of his paintings was on view at the National Academy of Design in New York City. Though he maintained a studio in New York City... | 1832 - 1912 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 |
Wheeler, William Ruthven | ![]() 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 - 1894 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 |
Whistler, James McNeill | ![]()
James
Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834 — July 17, 1903) was an
American-born, British-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral
allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for
art's sake". His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a
stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail.[1]... | 1834 - 1903 | Anonymous | 12/24/2012 |
Wiggins, John Carleton | ![]() John Carleton Wiggins (more commonly known as just Carleton Wiggins) was born to Guy and Adelaide Ludlum Wiggins on March 4, 1848, in Turners (now Harriman), N. Y., west of the Hudson River. Wiggins received his early education in Middletown N.Y., and later attended public schools in Brooklyn. As a youth, he took a job at an insurance company on Wall... | 1848 - 1932 | Anonymous | 12/24/2012 |