Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks, Edwin Lord | 
Edwin Lord
Weeks (1849 – 1903), American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts,
in 1849. He was a pupil of Léon Bonnat and of Jean-Léon
Gérôme, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was
distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes.
Weeks'
parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston
and as such... | 1849 - 1903 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Wachtel, Elmer |
Painter. Born in Baltimore, MD on Jan. 21, 1864.
When Elmer
was quite young, the Wachtel family moved to Lanark, IL where he worked as a
hired hand and taught himself to play the violin.
At age 18,
he moved to San Gabriel, CA where his brother had married the sister of artist
Guy Rose and was managing the large Rose ranch. He continued playing... | 1864 - 1929 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Waugh, Frederick Judd |
Frederick
Judd Waugh (September 13, 1861 – September 10, 1940) was an American
artist, primarily known as a marine artist. During World War I, he designed
ship camouflage for the U.S. Navy, under the direction of Everett L. Warner.
Background
Born in
Bordentown, New Jersey, Waugh was the son of a well-known Philadelphia portrait
painter, Samuel... | 1861 - 1940 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Watrous, Harry Wilson |
A leading
figure in New York’s turn-of-the-century art establishment, Harry Watrous had a successful career as a painter and
administrator. After training in the French academic mode at the Academie Julian in Paris, Watrous
returned to New York and won recognition for his stylized female portraits,
elegant still lifes, and enchanting... | 1857 - 1940 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Willson, Mary Ann |
This artist
was unknown until 1943, when a New York art gallery discovered a portfolio of
her drawings. Mary Ann Willson is now regarded as one
of the earliest American watercolorists, along with Eunice Pinney
of Connecticut.
An
anonymous letter written in 1850 and signed by "an admirer of art"
accompanied the drawings. It relates that Willson... | Born 1810 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
| Wicks, Mary | Born 1843 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| 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 |
| Waters, Susan C. |
Susan
Catherine Moore Waters (May 18, 1823—July 7, 1900), self-taught painter
of animals and resident of Bordentown, New Jersey.
Biography
On May 18,
1823, Susan Catherine Moore Waters was born in Binghamton, New York. A
self-taught artist with little formal training, Waters did attend seminary
school in Friendsville, Pennsylvania, where she... | 1823 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Wendel, Theodore |
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 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Wagguno |
The
National Gallery's painting Fruit and Baltimore Oriole
(1980.62.47) was inscribed on the reverse Painted by Wagguno,
1858, but the inscription is no longer visible. It is recorded on the accession
sheet of the donors (E. W. and B. C. Garbisch), but
no photographs are known. No information on the artist has been discovered to
date. [This is an... | Born 1858 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
