Artists & Illustrators

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Search or browse our A–Z list of artists and illustrators represented in the Public Domain Image Library. Each artist page brings together out-of-copyright images, short biographical information and links to available high-resolution downloads. Use the search box if you already have a name in mind, or browse by surname to discover painters, illustrators, poster artists, botanical artists, book illustrators and designers whose work is in the public domain.

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  • John William Waterhouse

    John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) was an English painter known for his captivating... 

  • Watteau, François Louis Joseph

    François Louis Joseph Watteau (1758-1823), known like his father as the Watteau... 

  • Jean-Antoine Watteau

    Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career... 

  • George Watts

    George Frederick Watts (1817-1904) was a prominent British painter and sculptor, celebrated... 

  • Ida Waugh

    Ida Waugh (1846-1919) was an American illustrator of children's literature who often... 

  • Josephine Wheeler Weage

    Josephine Wheeler Weage (1872-?) was born in Oak Park, Cook, Illinois in... 

  • Thomas Weaver

    Thomas Weaver (1774-1843) was a Shropshire artist who mainly painted portraits of... 

  • John Archibald (Arch) Webb

    John Archibald (Arch) Webb RBA (1866-1947) was a British painter and illustrator... 

  • Gerda Wegener

    Gerda Wegener (1885-1940) was a Danish illustrator and painter, renowned for her... 

  • Harrison Weir

    Harrison William Weir RI (1824-1906), known as "The Father of the Cat... 

  • J. Alden Weir

    Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919), an eminent figure in the American Impressionist movement,... 

  • Wojciech Weiss

    Wojciech Weiss (1875-1950) was a prominent Polish painter and draughtsman of the... 

  • Joanna Boyce Wells

    Joanna Mary Boyce Wells (1831-1861) was a British painter associated with the... 

  • Theodore Wendell

    Theodore Wendel (1859-1932) was born to German parents in Ohio, USA. He... 

  • Werefkin, Marianne von

    Marianne von Werefkin (1860-1938) was an influential Russian-Swiss Expressionist painter whose life... 

  • Adriaen van der Werff

    Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722) was a Dutch painter of portraits and... 

  • Jean Charles Werner

    Jean-Charles Werner (1798-1856) was a natural history artist and comparative anatomist for... 

  • Benjamin West

    Benjamin West (1738-1820) was an influential Anglo-American painter renowned for his historical... 

  • William Westall

    William Westall (1781-1850) was a British landscape artist and illustrator, best known... 

  • Rogier van der Weyden

    Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400-1464), initially known as Roger de la Pasture,... 

  • Rowland Wheelwright

    Rowland Wheelwright (1870-1955) was a painter and illustrator. Using a pastel palette,... 

  • James McNeill Whistler

    James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was an American painter, printmaker, and influential... 

  • Henry Seppings White

    Henry Seppings White (1849-1937), a prominent illustrator for Vanity Fair during the... 

  • John White

    John White (c.1539-c.1593) was a notable English colonist, explorer, and artist whose... 

  • Fred Whitehead

    Frederick William Newton Whitehead (1853-1938) was an English landscape artist and illustrator.... 

  • Thomas Worthington Whittredge

    Thomas Worthington Whittredge (1820-1910) was an influential American landscape painter whose works... 

  • Antoine Joseph Wiertz

    Antoine Joseph Wiertz (1806-1865) was a Belgian Romantic painter, sculptor, and writer,... 

  • Samuel de Wilde

    Samuel De Wilde (1751-1832), born and died in London, was a portrait... 

  • Sir David Wilkie

    Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841) was a renowned Scottish painter whose works significantly... 

  • Arthur Wilkinson

    I can find little on this artist. Other sites show his dates... 

  • Alexander Williams

    Alexander Williams RHA (1846-1930) was an Irish landscape and marine painter. He... 

  • Charles Edward Wilson

    Charles Edward Wilson (1854-1941) was a British artist born in 1854 at... 

  • Oscar Wilson

    Oscar Wilson (1863-1930) was a hugely successful and popular English genre and... 

  • Richard Wilson

    Richard Wilson RA (1714-1782) was a Welsh painter who specialised in landscape... 

  • Carl Wimar

    Karl Ferdinand Wimar, also known as Charles Wimar and Carl Wimar (1828-1862),... 

  • William Windus

    William Lindsay Windus (1822-1907) was an English painter, part of a group... 

  • Anna Winegar

    Anna Lillian Winegar (1867-1941) was an American painter and illustrator. From about... 

  • Peter de Wint

    Peter De Wint (1784-1849) was a prolific English painter, mostly in landscape... 

  • Milo Winter

    Milo Winter (1888-1956) was an acclaimed American illustrator known particularly for his... 

  • Franz Xaver Winterhalter

    Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873) was a German painter and lithographer who rose... 

  • Augusta Withers

    Augusta Hanna Elizabeth Innes Withers (1792-1877) was an English natural history illustrator,... 

  • Witkacy

    Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, often known simply as Witkacy (1885-1939), was a multifaceted... 

  • Joseph Wolf

    Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) was a German artist who specialised in natural history... 

  • William B. Wollen

    William Barnes Wollen (1857-1936) was an English painter mostly known for his... 

  • Wols (Alfred Wolfgang Schulze)

    Wols was the pseudonym adopted by Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (1913-1951), a... 

  • Grant Wood

    Grant DeVolson Wood (1891-1942) was an American artist and representative of Regionalism,... 

  • Alice B. Woodward

    Alice Bolingbroke Woodward (1862–1951) was an English artist and illustrator. She was... 

  • John Wootton

    John Wootton (c.1686-1764) was an English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes... 

  • Ethel Wright

    Ethel Wright later Ethel Bradley (1869-1939) was a British portrait painter, illustrator... 

  • John Buckland Wright

    John Buckland Wright (1897-1954) was a British printmaker, painter and draughtsman. He... 

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