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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François Louis Joseph Watteau (1758-1823), known like his father as the Watteau...
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Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career...
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George Frederick Watts (1817-1904) was a prominent British painter and sculptor, celebrated...
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Ida Waugh (1846-1919) was an American illustrator of children's literature who often...
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Josephine Wheeler Weage (1872-?) was born in Oak Park, Cook, Illinois in...
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Thomas Weaver (1774-1843) was a Shropshire artist who mainly painted portraits of...
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John Archibald (Arch) Webb RBA (1866-1947) was a British painter and illustrator...
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Gerda Wegener (1885-1940) was a Danish illustrator and painter, renowned for her...
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Harrison William Weir RI (1824-1906), known as "The Father of the Cat...
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Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919), an eminent figure in the American Impressionist movement,...
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Wojciech Weiss (1875-1950) was a prominent Polish painter and draughtsman of the...
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Joanna Mary Boyce Wells (1831-1861) was a British painter associated with the...
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Theodore Wendel (1859-1932) was born to German parents in Ohio, USA. He...
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Marianne von Werefkin (1860-1938) was an influential Russian-Swiss Expressionist painter whose life...
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Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722) was a Dutch painter of portraits and...
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Jean-Charles Werner (1798-1856) was a natural history artist and comparative anatomist for...
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Benjamin West (1738-1820) was an influential Anglo-American painter renowned for his historical...
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William Westall (1781-1850) was a British landscape artist and illustrator, best known...
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Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400-1464), initially known as Roger de la Pasture,...
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Rowland Wheelwright (1870-1955) was a painter and illustrator. Using a pastel palette,...
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was an American painter, printmaker, and influential...
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Henry Seppings White (1849-1937), a prominent illustrator for Vanity Fair during the...
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John White (c.1539-c.1593) was a notable English colonist, explorer, and artist whose...
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Frederick William Newton Whitehead (1853-1938) was an English landscape artist and illustrator....
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Thomas Worthington Whittredge (1820-1910) was an influential American landscape painter whose works...
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Antoine Joseph Wiertz (1806-1865) was a Belgian Romantic painter, sculptor, and writer,...
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Samuel De Wilde (1751-1832), born and died in London, was a portrait...
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Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841) was a renowned Scottish painter whose works significantly...
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Alexander Williams RHA (1846-1930) was an Irish landscape and marine painter. He...
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Charles Edward Wilson (1854-1941) was a British artist born in 1854 at...
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Oscar Wilson (1863-1930) was a hugely successful and popular English genre and...
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Richard Wilson RA (1714-1782) was a Welsh painter who specialised in landscape...
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Karl Ferdinand Wimar, also known as Charles Wimar and Carl Wimar (1828-1862),...
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William Lindsay Windus (1822-1907) was an English painter, part of a group...
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Anna Lillian Winegar (1867-1941) was an American painter and illustrator. From about...
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Peter De Wint (1784-1849) was a prolific English painter, mostly in landscape...
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Milo Winter (1888-1956) was an acclaimed American illustrator known particularly for his...
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873) was a German painter and lithographer who rose...
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Augusta Hanna Elizabeth Innes Withers (1792-1877) was an English natural history illustrator,...
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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, often known simply as Witkacy (1885-1939), was a multifaceted...
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Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) was a German artist who specialised in natural history...
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William Barnes Wollen (1857-1936) was an English painter mostly known for his...
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Wols was the pseudonym adopted by Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (1913-1951), a...
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Grant DeVolson Wood (1891-1942) was an American artist and representative of Regionalism,...
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Alice Bolingbroke Woodward (1862–1951) was an English artist and illustrator. She was...
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John Wootton (c.1686-1764) was an English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes...
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Ethel Wright later Ethel Bradley (1869-1939) was a British portrait painter, illustrator...
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John Buckland Wright (1897-1954) was a British printmaker, painter and draughtsman. He...
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