Artists

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Waters, George Wellingtonnotes
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 - 1912Anonymous12/22/2012
Washington, William Dickinsonnotes
William D. Washington[1] (October 7, 1833 – December 2, 1870[2]) was an American painter and teacher of art. He is most famous for his painting The Burial of Latané, which became a symbol of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy in the years following the American Civil War[3], and for the work he did in establishing the fine arts program of the...
1833 -  1870Anonymous05/15/2012
Whistler, James McNeillnotes
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 - 1903Anonymous12/24/2012
Waterman, Marcusnotes
Marcus Waterman graduated from Brown University and then moved to New York City, where he had a studio from 1857 to 1874. He became an associate member of the National Academy in 1861. After 1874, Waterman made his home in Boston and spent much of his time around New England in Vermont and Cape Cod. From 1879 to 1884, the artist traveled to...
1834 -  1914Anonymous05/15/2012
Wyant, Alexander Helwignotes
Alexander Helwig Wyant, was born January 11, 1836, in Ohio - and he died November 29, 1892 in New York, New York. He was an American landscape painter. Also known as Alexander Wyant, A. H. Wyant, he was active as an artist in Arkville, New York, and Keene Valley, New York among other places. Biography Alexander Wyant was born at Port Washington,...
1836 - 1892Anonymous04/04/2012
Willard, Archibald M.notes
Archibald MacNeal Willard (August 22, 1836–October 11, 1918) was an American painter who was born and raised in Bedford, Ohio.[1] Willard joined the 86th Ohio Infantry in 1863 and fought in the American Civil War. During this time he painted several scenes from the war, and forged a friendship with photographer James F. Ryder. Willard painted...
1836 - 1918Anonymous05/15/2012
Walker, William A.notes
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 - 1921Anonymous04/19/2012
Wylie, Robertnotes
Robert Wylie (1839 - February 4, 1877), American artist, was born in the Isle of Man and relocated with his parents to the United States as a child. Wylie studied in the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, later serving a curator. In 1860, he helped found the Philadelphia Sketch Club, now one of the nation's oldest...
1839 -  1877Anonymous04/21/2012
Ward, Edgar Melvillenotes
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 -  1915Anonymous05/19/2012
Witt, John Harrison 1840 -  1901Alexander Lusher05/15/2012
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