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Below are displayed 260 of The Athenaeum's 5368 total person records (starting with the letter 'W'). They are listed by name, in descending order. Click the arrows next to column headings to re-sort the table. Click a letter below to look at only the people whose last names begin with that letter.
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Info Name         Lifespan         Nation of birth        
W
Rodolphe Wytsman 
1860-1927 Belgium
Juliette Wytsman 
1866-1925 Belgium
Charles William Wyllie 
1853-1923 England
Robert Wylie 
1839-1877 United States
William Wyld 
1806-1889 England
Feliks Michal Wygrzywalski 
1875-1944 Poland
Newell Convers (N.C.) Wyeth 
1882-1945 United States
Andrew Wyeth 
1917-2009 United States
Arnoud Wydeveld 
1832-1888 Netherlands
Francis John Wyburd 
1826-1893 England
Thomas Henry Wyatt 
1807-1880 England
Alexander Helwig Wyant 
1836-1892 United States
Ernst Würtenberger 
1828-1935 Germany
Thomas Jefferson Wright 
1798-1846 United States
Thomas Wright 
1830-1881 Australia
Joseph Wright of Derby 
1734-1797 England
Joseph Wright 
1756-1793 United States
George Hand Wright 
1872-1951 United States
Pieter Wouwerman 
1623-1682 Netherlands
Philips Wouwerman 
1619-1668 Netherlands
Rik Wouters 
1882-1916 Belgium
William Wallace Wotherspoon 
1821-1888 United States
Carlo Wostry 
1865-1943 Italy
Jules Worms 
1832-1914 France
Theodore Wores 
1860-1939 United States
John Wootton 
1682-1764 England
Thomas Woolner 
1825-1892 England
Virginia Woolf 
1882-1941 England
Samuel Johnson Woolf 
1880-1948 United States
Thomas Woodward 
1801-1852 England
Mabel May Woodward 
1877-1945 United States
Laura Woodward 
1834-1926 United States
Ellsworth Woodward 
1861-1939 United States
Richard Caton Woodville 
1825-1855 United States
Thomas Waterman Wood 
1823-1903 United States
John Archibald Woodside, Sr 
1781-1852 United States
Henry Woods 
1846-1921 England
David Woodlock 
1842-1929 England
John Z. Wood 
1846-1919 United States
James Longacre Wood 
1863-1938 United States
Grant Wood 
1891-1942
George Bacon Wood 
1831-1910 United States
Charles Haigh Wood 
1856-1927 United Kingdom
Charles Erskine Scott Wood 
1852-1944 United States
Charles H. Woodbury 
1864-1940 United States
Charles Woodbury 
1864-1940 United States
William Clarke Wontner 
1857-1930 England
Berthold Woltze 
1829-1896 Germany
John Wollaston 
1710-1775 England
Friedrich Ernst Wolfrom 
1857-1920 Germany
Adolf Wölfli 
Not listed Switzerland
Joseph Wolf 
1820-1889 England
Franz Xavier Wolf 
1896-1989 Germany
Elisabeth Wolf 
1873-1964 Germany
Caspar Wolf 
1735-1783 Switzerland
Władysław Bakalowicz 
1833-1903 Poland
Willam Arnold Witsen 
1860-1923 Netherlands
Karl Witkowski 
1860-1910 United States
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz 
1885-1939 Poland
Walter Withers 
1854-1914
Troy Daniel Witherington, R.A. 
1785-1865 Saint Kitts and Nevis
Ella G. Wise 
1877-1889 United States
Andrew wise  
Not listed
Javier Winthuysen Losada 
1874-1956 Spain
Arnold Winther 
1855-1883 Denmark
Franz Xavier Winterhalter 
1805-1873 Germany
George Winter 
1810-1876 England
William Winstanley 
1775-1806 England
Joos van Winghe 
1544-1603 Belgium
John T. Wimperis 
Not listed England
Karl Ferdinand (Carl or Charles) Wimar 
1828-1862 Germany
Arnold Wiltz 
1889-1937 Germany
F. R. Wilton 
Not listed
Richard Wilson, R. A. 
1713-1782 Wales
Erdix Tenney Wilson 
1831-1901 United States
Charles Edward Wilson 
1854-1941 England
Lemuel Everett Wilmarth 
1835-1918 United States
Jans Ferdinand (J.F.) Willumsen 
1863-1958 Denmark
Jos. Gregory Willman 
Not listed
Lady Susan Willis 
Not listed United States
Lucy Willis 
1954-? England
Eola Willis 
1856-1952 United States
Edmund Aylburton Willis 
Not listed England
William Ballard Williams 
1871-1956 United States
Walter Williams 
1835-1906 England
Virgil Macey Williams 
1830-1886 United States
John Williamson 
1826-1885 United States
Frederick Ballard Williams 
1871-1956 United States
Frederick Dickinson Williams 
1829-1915 United States
William III 
Not listed
William I , aka William the Conqueror 
Not listed France
William IV 
Not listed
William II , aka Rufus the Red 
Not listed France
Patrick Willett 
Not listed United States
Adolphe Leon Willette 
1857-1926 France
Florent Willems 
1823-1905 Belgium
William H. Willcox 
1831-1929 United States
Archibald Willard 
1836-1918 United States
Adam Willaerts 
1577-1644 Netherlands
Sir Norman Wilkinson 
1878-1971
Robert D. Wilkie 
1828-1903 United States
John Wilkie 
1785-1841 United States
David Wilkie 
1785-1841 Scotland
Wilhelm I 
Not listed Prussia
Wilhelm , aka Wilhelm, Prince of Wied 
Not listed Albania
William John Wilgus 
1819-1853 United States
Catherine Wiley 
1879-1958 United States
Lemuel M. Wiles 
1826-1905 United States
Irving R. Wiles 
1861-1948 United States
John Caspar Wild 
1804-1846 Switzerland
Alexa Wilding , aka Alice Wilding 
Not listed England
Andre Wilder 
1871-1965 France
Charles Wilda 
1854-1907 Austria
Jan Hillebrand Wijsmuller 
1855-1925 Netherlands
John Carleton Wiggins 
1848-1932 United States
Guy Wiggins 
1883-1962 United States
Antoine Wiertz 
1806-1865 Belgium
Hans Beat Wieland 
1867-1945 Switzerland
Gustave Adolf Wiegand 
1869-1957 United States
Gunnar Widforss 
1879-1934 United States
John Palmer Wicker 
1860-1931 United States
Robert J. Wickenden 
1861-1931 England
John Whorf 
1903-1959 United States
Thomas Worthington Whittredge 
1820-1910 United States
William John Whittemore 
1860-1955 United States
John Barnard Whittaker 
1836-1926 United States
Sarah Wyman Whitman 
1842-1904 United States
Orrin White 
1883-1969 United States
Samuel Edwin Whiteman 
1860-1922 United States
Camelia Whitehurst 
1871-1936 United States
Henry C. White 
1861-1952 United States
Edwin White 
1817-1877 United States
Edith White 
1855-1946 United States
George William Whitaker 
1840-1916 United States
Rex Whistler 
1905-1944 United Kingdom
James Abbott McNeill Whistler 
1834-1903 United States
Seth Arca Whipple 
1856-1901 United States
Thomas Whightman 
1811-1888 United States
William Ruthven Wheeler 
1832-1893 United States
John Alfred Wheeler 
1821-1877 England
Clifton Wheeler 
1883-1953 United States
Almira Wheaton 
1804-1881 United States
Elisha Kent Kane Wetherill 
1874-1929 United States
William E. West 
1788-1857 United States
Samuel West 
1810-1867 Saint Kitts and Nevis
Mary Bartlett Pillsbury Weston 
1817-1894 United States
Stuart Westmacott 
1818-1862 Canada
Fredrik Westin 
1782-1862 Sweden
Benjamin West 
1738-1820 United States
Carl N. Werntz 
1874-1944 United States
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner 
1808-1894 Germany
Albert B. Wenzell 
1864-1917 United States
Ype Wenning 
1879-1959 Netherlands
William Wendt 
1865-1946 Germany
Theodore Wendel 
1859-1932 United States
Carl Welz 
1860-1929 Germany
Charles Dater Weldon 
1844-1935 United States
Thaddeus Welch 
1844-1919 United States
Adolphe Weisz 
1838-1900 France
Wojciech Weiss 
1875-1950 Poland
Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch 
1824-1903 Netherlands
Jan Weissenbruch 
1822-1880 Netherlands
William Weisman 
1840-1922 United States
Robert Walter Weir 
1803-1889 United States
Julian Alden Weir 
1852-1919 United States
John Ferguson Weir 
1841-1926 United States
Kirt Weinhold 
1896-1965 Germany
Johannes Weiland 
1856-1909 Netherlands
John Reinhard Weguilin, R.W.S. 
1849-1927 England
Sebastian Wegmayr 
1776-1857 Austria
Bertha Wegmann 
1847-1926 Denmark
Danquart Anton Weggeland 
1827-1918 Norway
Edwin Lord Weeks 
1849-1903 United States
William Weekes 
1856-1909 England
Richard G. Wedderspoon 
1889-1976 United States
Walter Ernest Webster 
1878-1959 England
Thomas Webster 
1800-1886 England
Edwin Ambrose Webster 
1869-1935 United States
Paul Weber 
1823-1916 Germany
Max Weber 
1881-1961 Poland
C. Philip Weber 
1849-1921 United States
James Webb 
1825-1895 England
Andrew J. H. Way 
1826-1888 United States
Frederick Judd Waugh 
1861-1940 United States
Alfred R. Waud 
1828-1891 United States
George Frederic Watts 
1817-1904 France
Frederick Waters Watts 
1800-1862 England
George Fiddes Watt 
1873-1960 Scotland
Jean-Antoine Watteau 
1684-1721 France
William R. C. Watson 
1831-1921 England
Samuel Watson 
1818-1867 Saint Kitts and Nevis
Robert Watson 
1865-1916 England
John Dawson Watson 
1832-1892 United Kingdom
George Watson 
1767-1837 England
George Spencer Watson 
1869-1934 United Kingdom
Harry Watrous 
1857-1940 United States
Susan Watkins 
1875-1913 United States
Susan Catherine Waters 
1823-1900 United States
George W. Waters 
1832-1912 United States
Marcus Waterman 
1834-1919 United States
John William Waterhouse 
1849-1917 England
Friedrich Wasmann 
1805-1886 Germany
William D. Washington 
1833-1870 United States
Georges Washington 
1827-1910 France
Abel George Warshawsky 
1883-1962 United States
Edmund George Warren 
1834-1909 England
Andrew Warren 
1823-1873 United States
Henry James Warre 
1819-1898 England
Everett Longley Warner 
1877-1963 United States
Arthur Wardle 
1864-1949 England
Jacob Caleb Ward 
1819-1891 United States
Edwin Arthur Ward R.A. 
1860-1933 England
Edward Matthew Ward 
1816-1879 England
Edgar Melville Ward 
1839-1915 United States
Charles Daniel Ward 
1872-1935 United Kingdom
Charles Ward 
1850-1937 United States
Jens Waldemar Wang 
1859-1926 Norway
Juan Buckingham Wandesforde 
1817-1902 England
Edward Arthur Walton, R.S.A., P.R.S.W. 
1860-1922 Scotland
Samuel Walters 
1811-1882 England
George Stanfield Walters 
1838-1924 England
Martha Walter 
1875-1976 United States
Christian J. Walter 
1872-1938 United States
Charles E. Waltensperger 
1871-1931 United States
Thomas Walmsley 
1763-1806 Saint Kitts and Nevis
William Coventry Wall 
1810-1886 England
William Allen Wall 
1801-1885 United States
William Guy Wall 
1792-1864 Saint Kitts and Nevis
Henry Wallis 
1830-1916 England
Mary Lemon Waller 
Not listed England
Frank Waller 
1842-1923 Netherlands
Abraham Walkowitz 
1878-1965 Russian Federation
William Aiken Walker 
1839-1921 United States
John Hanson Walker 
1844-1933 England
James Walker 
1819-1889 United States
Horatio Walker 
1858-1938 Canada
Henry Oliver Walker , aka H. O. Walker 
1843-1929 United States
Frederick Walker 
1840-1875 England
Ferdinand Graham Walker 
1859-1927 United States
Christian Walker 
1872-1938 United States
Alice Walker 
Not listed England
Samuel Lovett Waldo 
1783-1861 United States
Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller 
1793-1865 Austria
Lionel Walden 
1861-1933 United States
Carl Gustav Waldeck 
1866-1930 United States
Alfons Walde 
1891-1958
Harry Mills Walcott 
1870-1944 United States
James Clarke Waite 
1832-1921 England
Edward Wilkins Waite 
1854-1924 England
John Wainwright 
1845-1873 England
Ehrnfried Wahlqvist 
1815-1895 Sweden
Otto Wagner 
1803-1861 Germany
Fritz Wagner 
1896-1939 Germany
Frederick (Fred) R. Wagler 
1860-1940 United States
Carl Wagner 
1796-1867 Germany
Frank Russell Wadsworth 
1874-1905 United States
Edward Wadsworth 
1889-1949 England
Marion Kavanaugh (Wachtel) 
1875-1954 United States
Elmer Wachtel 
1864-1929 United States
Jacob Waben 
1580-1640 Netherlands