Artists

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Wheeler, William Ruthvennotes
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 - 1894Anonymous12/22/2012
Wiggins, John Carletonnotes
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 - 1932Anonymous12/24/2012
Wilson, Erdix Tenneynotes
Erdix Tenney Wilson was born on October 15, 1831 in Hardwick, VT.  His parents, Samuel and Martha, resided in Hardwick.  The 1860 census lists Wilson as living with his parents in Plainfield, VT and his occupation as "ambrotype taker" (photographer).  He married Julia B. Wentworth in April 1868.   Living in Lancaster, NH, he learned the art of...
1831 - 1901Anonymous12/27/2012
Wolcott, Josiahnotes
Josiah Wolcott was a New England portrait and landscape painter, active from 1835 to 1857.  He exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum in 1837. In addition to the painting on this site of The Flume, he is known to have painted Mount Kearsarge from Rattlesnake Hill (oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches, private collection 1960).  
active 1835 - 1857Anonymous12/27/2012
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