| ARTIST | BORN-DIED | PERIOD | SCHOOL |
W | WAAL, Cornelis de (see WAEL, Cornelis de) | (1592-1667) | Baroque | Flemish painter (Rome) |
| WAEL, Cornelis de | (1592-1667) | Baroque | Flemish painter (Rome) |
| WAGNER, Joseph | (1706-1780) | Baroque | German graphic artist (Venice) |
| WAGNER, Otto | (1841-1918) | Art Nouveau | Austrian architect (Vienna) |
| WAGNER, Veit | (active 1492-1520) | Northern Renaissance | German sculptor (Strasbourg) |
| WAHL, Johann Salomon | (1689-1765) | Rococo | German painter (Copenhagen) |
| WAILLY, Charles de | (1729-1798) | Neoclassicism | French architect (Paris) |
| WAITT, Richard | (active 1706-1732) | Baroque | Scottish painter |
| WALDMÜLLER, Fedinand Georg | (1793-1865) | Romanticism | Austrian painter (Vienna) |
| WALDNER, Hans | (d. 1573) | Northern Renaissance | German cabinet-maker (Austria) |
| WALKER, George | (1781-1856) | Romanticism | English graphic artist |
| WALKER, Robert | (1599-1658) | Baroque | English painter |
| WALLIS, Henry | (1830-1916) | Romanticism | English painter (London) |
| WALPOLE, Horace | (1717-1797) | Neoclassicism | English architect (London) |
| WALS, Goffredo | (c. 1600-c. 1639) | Northern Renaissance | German painter (Italy) |
| WALSCAPELLE, Jacob van | (1644-1727) | Baroque | Dutch painter |
| WALSCHARTZ, François | (c. 1596-c. 1678) | Baroque | Flemish painter (Liège) |
| WALTHER, Friedrich | (c. 1440-c. 1495) | Northern Renaissance | German painter |
| WALTON, Edward Arthur | (1860-1922) | Impressionism | Scottish painter (Glasgow) |
| WARD, James | (1769-1859) | Romanticism | English painter |
| WARE, Isaac | (1704-1766) | Rococo | English architect |
| WARIN, Jean | (1607-1672) | Baroque | French sculptor |
| WASMANN, Friedrich | (1805-1886) | Romanticism | German painter |
| WATERHOUSE, John William | (1849-1917) | Realism | English painter |
| WATERLOO, Anthonie | (1609-1690) | Baroque | Dutch painter |
| WATSON, John (see GORDON, John Watson) | (1788-1864) | Realism | Scottish painter (Edinburgh) |
| WATTEAU, Jean-Antoine | (1684-1721) | Rococo | French painter (Paris) |
| WATTEAU, Louis-Joseph | (1731-1798) | Rococo | French painter (Paris) |
| WATTS, Frederick Waters | (1800-1870) | Realism | English painter (London) |
| WEBB, James | (c. 1825-1895) | Realism | English painter (London) |
| WEBB, Philip Speakman | (1831-1915) | Realism | English architect |
| WEBBER, John | (1751-1793) | Rococo | English painter (London) |
| WEBER, Giovanni Zanobio | (1737-1806) | Neoclassicism | Italian sculptor (Florence) |
| WEBER, Henrik | (1818-1866) | Romanticism | Hungarian painter (Pest) |
| WECKMANN, Niklaus | (active 1481-1528) | Northern Renaissance | German sculptor (Ulm) |
| WEEKES, Henry | (1807-1877) | Neoclassicism | English sculptor (London) |
| WEEKS, Edwin Lord | (1849-1903) | Romanticism | American painter |
| 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 |
| WEIDMANN, Leonhard | (active 1568-1596) | Northern Renaissance | German architect (Rothenburg) |
| WEINBRENNER, Johann Jakob Friedrich | (1766-1826) | Neoclassicism | German architect (Karlsruhe) |
| WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm | (1683-1741) | Baroque | German graphic artist |
| WEIR, Julian Alden | (1852-1919) | Impressionism | American painter |
| WEISGERBER, Albert | (1878-1915) | Impressionism | German painter (Munich) |
| WEISS, Bartholomeus Ignaz | (c. 1740-1814) | Rococo | German painter (Munich) |
| WEISSENBRUCH, Jan Hendrik | (1824-1903) | Impressionism | Dutch painter (The Hague) |
| WEISWEILER, Adam | (1744-1820) | Rococo | French cabinet-maker (Paris) |
| WELSCH, Maximilian von | (1671-1745) | Baroque | German architect |
| WENTZINGER, Johann Christian | (1710-1797) | Rococo | German sculptor (Breisgau) |