| ARTIST | BORN-DIED | PERIOD | SCHOOL |
| W | WAEL, Cornelis de | (1592-1667) | Baroque | Flemish painter (Rome) |
| | WAGNER, Joseph | (1706-1780) | Baroque | German graphic artist (Venice) |
| | WAGNER, Veit | (active 1492-1520) | Northern Renaissance | German sculptor (Strasbourg) |
| | WALDMÜLLER, Fedinand Georg | (1793-1865) | Romanticism | Austrian painter (Vienna) |
| | WALKER, George | (active 1792-1795) | Neoclassicism | English graphic artist |
| | WALS, Goffredo | (c. 1600-c. 1639) | Northern Renaissance | German painter (Italy) |
| | WALSCAPELLE, Jacob van | (1644-1727) | Baroque | Dutch painter |
| | WARD, James | (1769-1859) | Romanticism | English painter |
| | WARIN, Jean | (1607-1672) | Baroque | French sculptor |
| | WASMANN, Friedrich | (1805-1886) | Romanticism | German painter |
| | WATTEAU, Jean-Antoine | (1684-1721) | Rococo | French painter (Paris) |
| | WATTEAU, Louis-Joseph | (1731-1798) | Rococo | French painter (Paris) |
| | WEBBER, John | (1751-1793) | Rococo | English painter (London) |
| | WEENIX, Jan | (1642-1719) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Amsterdam) |
| | WEENIX, Jan Baptist | (1621-1660) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Rome) |
| | WEIDITZ, Christoph | (c. 1500-1559) | Northern Renaissance | German sculptor |
| | WEISWEILER, Adam | (1744-1820) | Rococo | French cabinet-maker (Paris) |
| | WERFF, Adriaen van der | (1659-1722) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Rotterdam) |
| | WERFF, Pieter van der | (1665-1722) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Rotterdam) |
| | WERTINGER, Hans | (1465-1533) | Northern Renaissance | German painter (Landshut) |
| | WESEL, Adriaen van | (c. 1417-1499) | Northern Renaissance | Netherlandish sculptor (Utrecht) |
| | WEST, Benjamin | (1738-1820) | Rococo | American painter (London) |
| | WESTMACOTT, Sir Richard | (1775-1856) | Neoclassicism | English sculptor (London) |
| | WET, Gerrit de | (c. 1616 - 1674) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Amsterdam) |
| | WET, Jacob Willemsz. de, the Elder | (c. 1610-1675) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Haarlem) |
| | WEYDEN, Goossen van der | (c. 1465-after 1538) | Northern Renaissance | Flemish painter (Brussels) |
| | WEYDEN, Rogier van der | (1400-1464) | Northern Renaissance | Flemish painter (Brussels) |
| | WIERINGEN, Cornelis Claesz van | (c. 1580-1633) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Haarlem) |
| | WIERIX, Hieronymus | (1553-1619) | Mannerism | Flemish graphic artist (Antwerp) |
| | WIERTZ, Antoine | (1806-1865) | Romanticism | Belgian painter |
| | WIJCK, Thomas | (1616-1677) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Haarlem) |
| | WILDENS, Jan | (1586-1653) | Baroque | Flemish painter (Antwerp) |
| | WILIGELMO | (active 1099-1120) | Medieval | Italian sculptor (Modena) |
| | WILKIE, Sir David | (1785-1841) | Romanticism | Scottish painter |
| | WILLAERTS, Abraham | (1603-1669) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Utrecht) |
| | WILLAERTS, Adam | (1577-1664) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Utrecht) |
| | WILLAERTS, Isaac | (c. 1620-1693) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Utrecht) |
| | WILLE, Johann Georg | (1715-1808) | Neoclassicism | German graphic artist (Paris) |
| | WILLEBEECK, Petrus | (active 1632-1646) | Baroque | Flemish painter (Antwerp) |
| | WILSON, Richard | (1714-1782) | Baroque | English painter |
| | WILTON, Joseph | (1722-1803) | Baroque | English sculptor |
| | WIMAR, Carl | (1828-1862) | Realism | American painter (St Louis) |
| | WINTERHALTER, Franz Xaver | (1805-1873) | Romanticism | German painter |
| | WINTERHALTER, Josef the Younger | (1743-1807) | Rococo | German painter (Moravia) |
| | WIT, Jacob de | (1695-1754) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Amsterdam) |
| | WITDOECK, Jan | (1615-after 1642) | Baroque | Flemish graphic artist (Antwerp) |
| | WITHOOS, Mathias | (1627-1703) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Amersfoort) |
| | WITMONT, Heerman | (c. 1605-1684) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Delft) |
| | WITTE, Emanuel de | (1617-1692) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Amsterdam) |
| | WITTE, Pieter de (see CANDID, Peter) | (c. 1548-1628) | Mannerism | Flemish painter |