Artists
Name | Info | Years
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Weir, John Ferguson | 1841 - 1926 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Waller, Frank | ![]()
A
little-known artist of the 19th century, Frank Waller was born June 12, 1842 in
New York City. He was a painter, educator, and etcher who lived in Morristown,
New Jersey during the latter part of his life.
At 15 years
of age, Waller studied drawing at the Free Academy of the City of New York, now
known as the City College of New York, which he... | 1842 - 1923 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Wicks, Mary | Born 1843 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Walker, Henry Oliver | 1843 - 1929 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Woodward, John Douglas | ![]()
John
Douglas Woodward (12 July 1846 – 1924) was an American landscape artist
and illustrator described by Joseph Pennell as one of the country's
"best-known painters and illustrators".
He produced
hundreds of scenes of Europe, the Holy Land, and the United States, many of
which were reproduced in popular magazines of the day.[1]
Life and... | 1846 - 1924 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
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 |
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 |
Weir, Julian Alden | ![]()
Julian
Alden Weir (August 30, 1852 – December 8, 1919) was an American
impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony near Greenwich,
Connecticut. Weir was also one of "The Ten", a loosely-allied group
of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who
banded together in 1898 to exhibit their works as a... | 1852 - 1919 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
White, Stanford | ![]()
Stanford
White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and
partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead
& White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms.
He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various
public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found to
this day... | 1853 - 1906 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Weldon, Charles Dater | 1855 - 1935 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |