Artists
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Walker, William A. | ![]()
William
Aiken Walker (March 11, 1839 – January 3, 1921) is an American artist who
was born to an Irish Protestant father and a mother of South Carolina
background in Charleston, South Carolina in 1839. In 1842, when his father
died, Walker's mother moved the family to Baltimore, Maryland, where they
remained until returning to Charleston in... | 1838 - 1921 | Anonymous | 04/19/2012 |
Wall, William Allen | ![]()
William
Allen Wall was born to a prominent Quaker family of New Bedford. His father was
the master of a Quaker school, ran a hardware store, and promoted cultural
activities in the city.
Wall seems
to have inherited from his father an appreciation of art and may have received
instruction from him in watercolor and pencil technique. His father... | 1801 - 1885 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Wall, William Guy | ![]()
William Guy
Wall (1792 – 1864) was an American painter of Irish birth.
Wall was
born in Dublin in 1792 and arrived in New York in 1812. He was already a well
trained artist and soon became well known for his sensitive watercolor views of
the Hudson River Valley and surroundings. Some of these watercolors were
published as engravings by John Hill... | 1792 - 1864 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
Williams, William | ![]()
William
Williams (1727 – 27 April 1791)[1] was an
English/American painter. He was born in Bristol, England. His family is
believed to have originated in Caerphilly, Wales just
across the Severn River from Bristol. He began living in Philadelphia around 1747
after time at sea. In Philadelphia he was instrumental in building America's
first... | 1727 - 1791 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
Winstanley, William | ![]()
William Winstanley was an early American painter born in England
and transferred to the United States as a young man. He is credited as one of
the very first American landscape painters and was active in the late 18th and
early 19th centuries.
Winstanley
has been criticized by some art historians for his “sterile
recipes” for creating... | 1775 - 1806 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
Wenzell, Albert Beck | ![]()
The Bell Époche, prior to World War I, was a prosperous and
extravagant era when royalty governed most of Europe. At the same time in the
United States, great fortunes were being made through unfettered trusts and
monopolies, creating a class of Nouveau Riche. This ambitious society of Robber
Barons and their social climbing wives was just as... | 1864 - 1917 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Waugh, Alfred S. | ca. 1810 - 1856 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Wertmuller, Adolf Ulrich | ![]()
Adolf Ulrik
Wertmüller (February 18, 1751 — October 5, 1811) was a Swedish
painter whose notable works include Danaë receiving Jupiter in a Shower of
Gold.
Wertmüller
was born in Stockholm and studied art at home before moving to Paris in 1772 to
study under his cousin Alexander Roslin and French painter Joseph-Marie
Vien.[1] On July 30,... | 1751 - 1811 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Ward, Charles Caleb | ca. 1831 - 1896 | Anonymous | 04/15/2012 | |
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 |