A List Of Lesser Known Artists Discovered So Far....


Lesser-Known Artists Of The First World War

"Where there is no vision, the people perish." Proverbs, 29 : 18.

A post on Sergio Sbalchiero's Facebook Page about British WW1 artist Guy Lipscombe who served as a driver with the British Red Cross at No. 3 British Red Cross Ambulance Unit on the Italian Front, led me to research some of the lesser-known artists of the First World War.
 

As with the other sections of this commemorative First World War exhibition project, this is very much on-going and I welcome names of artists not yet included so please get in touch if you know of any.

 
Patrick William Adam


Anna Airy (1882 – 1964) – British Artist (one of the first women to be commissioned as a war artist); 

Cecil Aldin (1870 - 1935) - in charge of an Army Remount Depot WW1

Olga Alexandrovna (1882 - 1960) – Russian artist and WW1 nurse on Russian Front

Geoffrey Allfree (1889 – 1918) – 29th September; served Gallipoli; Official war artist 


William McDougall Anderson

Sybil Andrews (1898 – 1992) – British-Canadian artist; welder WW1;

Thomas William Armes (1894-1963) - Artists Rifles and commissioned into the Norfolk Regiment 


Caroline Armington (1875–1939) - Canadian; m. Frank Armington

Frank Armington (1876–1941) - Canadian, m. Caroline Armington

Leila Christina Armytage (1875 - 1965) – Australian; VAD in France, WW1


Clare Atwood (1866 - 1962) - British; commissioned to paint war scenes for the Canadian Government

William Spencer Bagdatopoulos (1888–1965)

Nina Baird (1882 - 1919) – British artist and Arabic Scholar; Egypt WW1


Cyrus LeRoy "Roy" Baldridge (1889-1977)  American artist

Herbert F Baldwin - official photographer for Australian Imperial Force, 

George Barbier (1882 – 1932) – French artist; 

Geoffrey de Gruchy Barkas M.C. (1896-1979); 

Cyril Henry Barraud (1877-1965);

Alfred Bastien – Belgian war artist; attached Canadian 22nd Bn.

Max Beckman – German


Alan Beeton (1880 - 1942) - British; camouflage artist during WW1 and husband of

Geneste Beeton, MM (nee Penrose 1889 - 1974) - British; one of 3 female artists who ran Camouflage Units in France in WW1

George Frederick Henry Bell OBE (1878 – 1966) – official Australian artist

Achille Beltrame (1871 – 1945) – Italian artist and illustrator French Army; wonded Western Front, Dec. 1914;

George Courtney Benson (1886 - 1960) - australian artist

Adrian Berrington - British; WW1 soldier, artist and architect

L. Cubitt Bevis (1892-1984) – Sculptor (served in the Artists’ Rifles during WW1);

Kenneth Cyril Bird (1887 – 1965) – pen-name "Fougasse" - cartoonist - wounded Gallipoli


Gus Bofa (1883 – 1968) – French artist and illustrator; wounded Dec. 1914, Western Front.

Hanns Bolz (1877 – 1918) – German illustrator, painter, sculptor; killed 4 July 1918. Blau Riter; 


Frank Bainbridge Booth ( - ) – artist and lithographer – Gunner RGA

Arthur Royce Bradbury; 

Sir Frank William Brangwyn RA RWS RBA (1867 – 1956) – Anglo-Welsh

Italico Brass ( - ) – Italian; Painting: "Dirigibile, 1918"

Virginie Dumont Breton (1859 – 1935) – French artist and poet

Ernest Brooks - https://www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions/war-in-the-sunshine-the-british-in-italy-1917-1918


Christina Broom (née Livingston 28 December 1862 – 5 June 1939) - Scottish photographer; "the UK's first female press photographer".

Reginald Brundrit (1883 – 1960) – b. Liverpool; volunteer Red Cross Italian Front WW1

William Joseph Brunell

Charles Bryant (1883 – 1937) – Australian Artist WW1

Anselmo Bucci ( - ) – Italian. Painting "Fuoco! 1918"


Arthur James Weatherall Burgess, RI ROI RBC (1879- 1957) – Australian artist; Official naval WW1 artist; 

Frederick Thwaites Bush

Charles Ernest Butler (1864 – 1933) – British artist

Lady Elizabeth Butler (1846 - 1943)

George Edmund Butler  (1872 - 1936) – British-born New Zealand artist

David Young Cameron (1865 – 1945) – com. by Canadian Govt. to paint in France 1917-1918

Sydney William Carline (1888 –1929) – despatch rider, then pilot RFC Italian Front; shot down

Ernest Stafford Carlos ( - 1917) – British artist; commissioned into "The Buffs" Regt. Kia Messines

Aldo Carpi ( - ) - Italian


Archibald Standish Cartrick (1864 – 1950);

John Cassidy (1860-1939) – Artist and Sculptor

Lance Cattermole (1898 – 1992);

James Alexander Churchman

James Clark (1858–1943) – British Artist and Stained Glass Designer

George James Coates (1869 – 1930) - Australian


Dorothy Josephine Coke (1897 - 1979)

Gisbert Combaz (1869 – 1941) – Belgian artist; 

Philip Connard, CVO, RA, (1875 - 1958) -  British artist; served in Royal Artillery on the Western Front before becoming an official Royal Naval war artist WW1

William Connor (1881 – 1968) - Irish


James Clark  (1858- 1943) – British artist

George Clausen (1852 - 1944) – Official WW1 war artist "Youth Mourning" 1917 (daughter’s fiancé killed)


Rex Vicat Cole (1870-1940);

Alex Colville

Olive Mudie Cook (1890 - 1925) – British – official war artist; drove ambulances in France and Italy WW1


John Cooper ( - ) – British artist; served in the Royal Flying Corps during WW1

Richard T Cooper MBE (1884-1957) – artist; joined infantry; official WW1 war artist “Graphic”; worked in camouflage unit

Maurice Galbraith Cullen

Cyrus Cuneo (1879 - 1916) - British artist


G.H. Davis (1881 – 1963) – British artist; RFC WW1; 

Joyce Dennys (1883 - 1991) - British; VAD in Devon in WW1; designed posters and wrote and illustrated books

Otto Dix (1891 – 1969) – German; Field Artillery, Machine Gun Unit, Western Front/Russian Front; "The Match Seller" – he became a pilot; awarded Iron Cross

Charles Edward Dixon, R.I. (1872 – 1934);

Francis Edgar Dodd, RA (1874 – 1949) - British artist; official WW1 artist

Edmond Dyonnet

Will Dyson (1880 - 1938) – Australian War Artist


Olive Edis (1876 - 1955) - British photographer

Lionel Edwards (9 November 1878 – 13 April 1966) – WW1 Remount Officer

Franz Eichhort (1888 – 1948) - German artist, illustrator, and engraver; 

Alexandra Alexandrovna Ekster (1882 - 1949) - Russian artist

Hans am Ende (1864 - 1918) – German artist; 

Joe English - Flemish artist

Maurice Esmein (1888 – 1918) – French artist, Medical Auxiliary, 72 Infantry Regiment. Killed 4 February 1918


Frederick Etchells

Henri Farré (1871-1934)

Frederick Arthur Farrell (1882 – 1935);

Barry Faulkner (1881 - 1966) – American artist - joined camouflage unit in WW1

François Flameng (1856 – 1923) - French artist; with thanks to Regine Verguier

Arthur Fehr (1897 – 1990) - British artist (son of Henry Fehr); 5 Btl King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry; served Western Front; taken POW by the Germans April 1918

Henry Charles Fehr (1867-1940) - memorial sculptor

Henry Lionel Field (1894 - 1916) - poet and artist

Charles James Folkard (1878 – 1963) – British artist – served in 2nd, 2/28th, 28th Battalion (Artists Rifles) in WW1;

Kenneth Forbes

Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857 - 1947) – British - Newlyn; "Munitions Girls, 1918"; son killed Somme, August 1916

George Vernon Meredith Frampton RA (1894 – 1984) – British artist and etcher

Albert Henry Fullwood (15 March 1863 – 1 October 1930) - Australian


Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941) - official French WW1 artist

Geoffrey Garnier (1889-1970) – British artist; enlisted in Army WW1; 

Leon Gaspard (1882-1964) – Russian; 

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (4 October 1891 – 5 June 1915) – French artist 

Mabel Gear (1898-1987) – British Artist and WW1 VAD

Wilhelmina Geddes (1887–1955) - Irish stained glass artist

William Hastie Geissler (1894 - 1963) -Scottish artist; Royal Scots Regiment, Western Front; 

Mark Gertler (9 December 1891 – 23 June 1939) - British

Max Gill ( - ) – British

Harold John Wilde Gilman (1876 – 1919)

Charles Ginner (1878 – 1952) – British Artist

Wilfrid de Glehn ( - ) – British; Royal Garrison Artillery - "The valley of the Isonzo, 1917".


Feodora Georgina Maud Gleichen (1861 – 1922) – British sculptor;

Helena Gleichen (1873 - 1947) – British Artist and Red Cross worker on Italian Front

Laura Sylvia Gosse (1881 – 1968) – British artist

Francis Carruthers Gould; (1844 – 1925); 

Duncan James Corrowr Grant (1885 - 1978) - artist; conscientious objector WW1

Joseph Gray (1890 – 1963) - 4th (Dundee) Battalion, The Black Watch Regiment August 1914 to March 1916, Neuve Chapelle, Festubert and Loos.

Maurice Gray (1889 – 1918) – Machine Gun Corps, Slade; Beaucourt en Santerre. 8 Aug. 1918

 William Robert Gregory, MC (1881 - 1918) – Irish airman, cricketer and artist; RFC

George Grosz (1893-1959) – German born artist; served German Army WW1


 Sir (Herbert) James Gunn RA (30 June 1893– 30 December 1964);

Karl Hagedorn (1889 - 1969) – German-born naturalised British artist (Liss)

Mary Riter Hamilton (1873 - 1954) – Canadian


Nina Hamnett (1890 - 1956)

Edward Handley-Read (1870-1935)

Martin Hardie (1875 - 1952) – British;

Brian Hatton (1887 - 1916) – artist; killed in action; "Civilisation"


Frank G Heath 1873 – 1936 – artist – volunteered for active service WW1;

Franz Seraph Henseler (1883 – 1918) – German 


Adrian Keith Graham Hill (24 March 1895 – 1977) - British artist; served Hon. Artillery Company WW1; official war artist Western Front

Leonard Raven Hill (1867 – 1942); 

Olive Hockin (1881–1936) – British artist, suffragette, author; Women's Land Army WW1

Charles Henry Holden (1875 - 1960) - architect; designed WW1 Memorials

W.F.C. Holden, RA - Captain; Camouflage artist in WW1

Gilbert Holiday (1879 – 1937) – RFA on WF "Horse-drawn transport passing the Cloth Hall, Ypres, 1917" and "1st Battalion, The Royal Scots Fusiliers defending Lock No. 2 on the Mons-Conde Canal at Jemappes on 23 August 1914"


Charles Holmes

Edward Hopper (1882 – 1967) – American; designed some WW1 posters

Norman Howard (1899 – 1955)


Frank Hurley OBE ( - 1962) – Australian photographer;  

Frank Hyde (1849 –1937) – British artist

William Hyde (1859–1925) – British;

Nellie Elizabeth Isaac (1886 - 1955) – Artist, illustrator, designer and inventor


Richard Jack RA (15 February 1866 – 29 June 1952) – official war artist Canadian Army

A.Y. Jackson

Francis Ernest Jackson (1872–1945) – British Lithographer; WW1 in charge of propaganda lithography for the Ministry of Information;

David Jagger - artist

Charles Sargeant Jagger – Sculptor


Augustus John (1878 - 1961) - British

Gwen John - War Artist


Frank Johnston

Louis Keene

Edith Kemp-Welch (1870 - 1941) - "Remember Scarborough" poster; sister of

Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch (1869 - 1958) - famous for Remount Centre paintings 

George Kenner (November 1, 1888 – July 10, 1971) - German artist

Eric Henri Kennington RA (12 March 1888 – 13 April 1960); 

John Graham Kerr (1869 – 1957) – member of the dazzle unit

James Kerr-Lawson – ‘The Cloth Hall, Ypres’ 1919?

Ludwig Kirchner (1880 - 1938) – German artist

Raphael Kirchner (1876 – 2 August 1917) - Austrian artist; 

Kathe Kollwitz (1867 - 1945) – German sculptress


Harold Knight

Laura Knight (1877 - 1970) - Conscientious Objector, worked on the land WW1; com. by Canadian Govt.

Winifred Knights (1899 – 1947) – British artist – "The Deluge"


Wilhelm ‘Lion’ Kuhnert (1865 – 1926) – German artist

Henry Lamb, MC (1883 - 1960) Australian-born; studied medicine Manchester; RAMC during WW1 "Irish Troops in the Judean Hills Surprised by a Turkish Bombardment"

George Washington Lambert


Hans Larwin (December 6, 1873 – 17 November 1938) – Austrian; 

Mabel Frances Layng (1881 – 1937) – British artist and WW1 VAD

Kate Lechmere (1887 - 1976) - VAD nurse during WW1

Gertrude Leese (1870-1963) – British artist; VAD in WW1 “Camp Life at Etaples”

Fernand Léger  (1881 – 1955) - French


Fred Leist

Alfred Neville Lewis (1895 – 1972) South African artist – Italian Front

Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) - Australian artist


Edward Barnard Lintott (1875 - 1951)

Henry Chamen Lintott (1880 - 1918) – 22nd March 1918


Henry John Lintott (1877 – 1965)- British;  “Avatar” oil on canvas

Flora Lion (1878 - 1958) - British artist commissioned by Ministry of Information to paint factory scenes


Arthur Lismer

A.W. Lloyd - cartoonist

Guy Lipscombe (1881 - 1952) – Red Cross volunteer, Italian Front


Arthur Lismer, CC (27 June 1885 – 23 March 1969)  - Dazzle ship camouflage painter;

Beatrice Ethel Lithiby (1889 – 1966) – Assistant Administrator QMAAC WW1


William Logsdail

Vito Lombardi ( - ) – Italian; Painting: "Montello Quota 153, 1918"

John Campbell Longstaff (1861 - 1941) – Australian artist; official war artist with the Australian Infantry Force WW1


William Frederick Longstaff (1879–1953) - Australian artist - "The Menin Gate at Midnight";

Neville Lytton 

Hayden Mackey (1883 - 1979) - British artist

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868 - 1928) - Scottish architect, designer and artist

Donald Graeme MacLaren (1886 - 1917) – British artist killed 29th June 1917


James McBey (1883 - 1959) - Palestine

John Tinney McCutcheon (1870 – 1949) – American photographer and cartoonist – combat artist and war correspondent in WW1;  

Arthur Ambrose McEvoy ARA (1878 – 1927) – British artist; 

David McLellan (1886 - 1962) – Official WW1 Photographer Western Front


August Macke (1887 – 1914) – German artist

Henri Maigrot (1857 – 1933) – French artist and illustrator; founder of satirical magazine “À la baïonnette”;

H.W. Mann – 30 March 1918 Western Front. Lt. RFA "Leaves from the Sketch-book of Lt. H.W. Mann, RFA" (The Studio, March 1918)

Franz Marc (1880 – 1916) – German artist; "Blau Riter"


Helen Grace Culverwell Marsh-Lambert (1888 - 1981) - British writer, artist and illustrator; WW1 postcards 

Frank Henry Mason (1875 – 1965) – British war artist in the RNVR as lieutenant in command of a motor launch in the North Sea, and Egypt. 


Donald Maxwell (1877–1936) – Artist, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy; 

Fred May (1891-1976) - British

Artur Mayeur (1871 - 1934) - French - with thanks to Régine Verguier for telling me about Artur


Dora Meeson

Bernard Meninsky (1891 – 1950) – Royal Fusiliers, WW1 – Palestine + Allenby- (lived Liverpool)

Louis Meyer (1869 – 1969) - American Artist and Sculptor

Victoria Monkhouse (1883 - 1970) - British artis; Home Front paintings WW1

J. B. Morrall (1873 - 1963) – "Transport in Winter 1917"; "The abomination of desolation' Mametz Wood 1916"; "Contalmaison in 1916 the remains of a village" " Lorries on the Western Front"


Harold James Mowat (1879 - 1949) – Canadian artist

Sir Alfred James Munnings, KCVO, PRA (1878 – 1959)

John Nash - served in the Artists Rifles during WWI


Norah Neilson-Gray (1882 - 1931) - Scottish artist; nurse with the Scottish Women's Hospitals WW1; Royaumont Abbey, France

Horace W. Nicholls (1867 – 1941) – British photographer;

Sir William Nicholson


Albert James Olsson

Rose O'Neil (1874 - 1944) - American sculptor, suffragist, inventor, novelist, poet, musician; creator of Kewpie dolls

Charles Moxon Quiller Orchardson, MM (1873-1917) – Artist; died of wounds 26th April 1917


Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE, RA, RHA (1878 – 1931) – artist

Malcolm Osborne CBE RA PPRE (1880 - 1963);

Alfred Wyatt Papworth ( - ) – Architect; Artists Rifles kia serving with Royal Engineers 2nd April 1917


Karl Bergemann Parsons (1884 – 1934) British stained glass artist; served  in Army in WW1; post-war memorials

Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne (1884–1967) – British artist;

Charles Maresco Pearce (1874-1964);

Will C. Penn, MC (1877 - 1968) - British


Albino Pitscheider - Italian sculptor

Roland Vivian Pitchforth (1895 - 1982) - served in Royal Garrison Artillery WW1

Margaret Rose Preston (29 April 1875 – 28 May 1963) - Australian artist and printmaker - Occupational Therapy Teacher in Britain WW1

Cyril Edward Power (1872 – 1951) – British artist, RFC ; 

Harold Septimus Power (1877 - 1951) - New Zealand-born Australian official WW1 artist

Ernest Proctor and his wife Dod Procter

Victor Prouvé, (1858 – 1943) – French artist

Gerald Spencer Pryse (1882–1956) - British artist and lithographer; served as a dispatch rider for the Belgian government, present at the Siege of Antwerp

James Purdy (1899 - 1972 ) – British artist;

Tom Purvis RDI (1888-1959) - 'the king of the posters'; served in the Artists Rifles during WW1


Federico Quarenghi or Federigo Quarenghi (1858 - 1940) - Italian artist

James Peter Quinn

Louis Raemaekers (1869 –1956) - Dutch artist and editorial cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper “De Telegraaf” during The First World War

Iso Rea (1860 – 1940) – Australian; volunteer in France WW1


George Agnew Reid

Stuart Reid (1883 - 1971) – British artist


Karl Reisenbichler (1885 – 1962 – Austrian Artist and Etcher; served on Russian Front WW1;

Gladys Reynell (1881–1956) - one of South Australia's earliest potters; taught occupational therapy in Britain during WW1

Leonard Richmond – ‘Railway Construction in France’ 1917 


Hilda Rix-Nicholas (1884 - 1961) - Australian;

Keith Roberts

Lunt Roberts (1894 - 1981) - British artist; served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers WW1

Thomas William "Tom" Roberts (8 March 1856 – 14 September 1931); 

Stewart Robertson (1887 – 1970);  Italian Front

Albert Henry Robinson

Frederick Cayley Robinson ARA (1862 – 1927); 

Gilbert Rogers (1881 – 1956) "Ypres 1915" "RAMC at Messines"


William Allen Rogers (1854–1931) - American political cartoonist;

Isaac Rosenberg – poet and artist


Frank - Francis - Rossiter-Crozier (1883 – 22 October 1948) – Australian; official war artist in WW1;

Sir William Rothenstein (1872 – 1945) – British; official war artists in WW1 and WW2


Victor Rousseau  (16 December 1865 – Vorst, 17 March 1954) - Belgian sculptor & poet

Henry Rushbury (1889 – 1968) -  artist; 

Gyrth Russell

Hester Margaret Sainsbury (1890 - 1967) - British artist, poet, dancer, illustrator

Joseph Ernest Sampson

Anthony (Tony) Frederick Sarg (1880 - 1942) - American artist and pupeteer.

John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925)  - American artist: official war artist Western Front WW1 1918

Giulio Aristide Sartorio (1860 – 1932) – Italian; "Il pontone Tigre a Caposile, 1918"


Rudolph Sauter (1895 – 1977) – Artist

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola (1871 – 1950) – French artist – Head of French camouglage unit in WW1; 

George Abel Schreiner (August 21, 1875 - January 21, 1942) - American photographer - war correspondent for Associated Press in WW1;

Otto Schubert (1892 – 1970) – German artist; WW1 postcards

Randolph Schwabe

PB Elliott Seabrooke (1881 - 1950) – Red Cross volunteer, Italian Front


John Byam Liston Shaw (13 November 1872 – 26 January 1919; 

Inglis Sheldon-Williams

E.H. Shepard – Italian Front; Artillery Officer; "Punch" cartoonist; (Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator)


Daniel Sherrin

Kenneth Shoesmith (1890 - 1939) artist/poster designer; cadet on Conway – Wirral 


Sidney Herbert Sime (1865 – 22 May 1941, aka S. H. Sime); 

Charles Walter Simpson

Charles Sims

Robert Borlase Smart (1881 – 1947); 

Grace Cossington Smith (1892 – 1984); 

J. Andre Smith (1880 – 1959);

Percy Delf Smith


Solomon Joseph Solomon RA (1860 - 1927) - artist; camouflage artist Western Front WW1

Joseph Southall (1861 - 1944) – pacifist and Quaker – cartoons in WW1

Austin O. Spare (1886 - 1956) artist. RAMC in WW1 in Blackpool; "First Field Dressing", "Operating on a slightly wounded man in a regimental aid post" 


Charles Spencelayh (October 27, 1865 – June 25, 1958) – Portrait of son and “Two Minutes Silence”;

Stanley Spencer ( - ) - Artist ‘Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a Dressing-Station at Smol, Macedonia, September 1916’

PB Walter Spradbery (1889 – 1969) – Royal Army Medical Corps WW1 – also wrote poetry (Family)


Fred Spurgin (1882- 1968) – British comic illustrator WW1 postcards; 

William George Storm, MC (1882 - 1917) – Canadian artist; Artists Rifles and 1/5th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment

Ian Strang

Arthur Streeton (1867 - 1943)

Dorothy Stevens (1888 – 1966)

Arthur Streeton ( - ) – Australian WW1 Artist


Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869–1933)

George Hillyard Swinstead (1860 - 1926) - British artist

Algernon M. Talmage (1871 - 1939) - British

Victor Tardieu (1870 - 1937) - French; volunteered to join French Army WW1

Leonard Campbell Taylor ( - ) – British war artist served with the Surrey Volunteer Regiment from 1916 to 1917; became a Lieutenant with the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve 1918

Charles Henry Tenre  (1854 – 1926) – French; painting of Red Cross Nurse Devouement


James Thorpe (1876-1949) RFC from Artists Rifles – British artist

Albert Toft - sculptor

Henry Tonks ((1862 - 1937) – British, doctor, artist and art teacher; served with the Red Cross on the Western and Italian Fronts and at Archangel in Russia; also with RAMC

Jessie Traill (1881 - 1967) - Australian; VAD France WW1


John Armstrong Turnbull 

John Turner MC, Croix de Guerre (1882 – 1918) – British schoolteacher and artist (known as Jack Turner)

Albert Turpin (1900 - ) – British artist; fought in WW1

Felix Valloton (1865 - 1925) – French artist;

Frederick Horsman Varley (January 2, 1881 – September 8, 1969) - Canadian artist

Rudolf von Meissl (1879 - ?) Austro-Hungarian artist;

Edward Wadsworth (1889 – 1949) – British; Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on the island of Mudros, invalided out in 1917, transferred to unit working on dazzle camouflage designs onto allied ships

Annie E A Walker (1855 - 1929) - American

Geoffrey Webb (1879-1954) – artist; served Artists Rifles


Nugent Hermann Welch (1881 - 1970) – New Zealand artist; 

Denys Wells (1881-1973) served in the Artists Rifles during WWI; awarded a B.E.M. for gallantry; served in France

James Wilkie, MC (1890-1957) – artist; Artists Rifles; MC and 2 M-I-Ds

Norman Wilkinson, CBE, RI (1878 - 1971) designed the Dazzle paint for ships, RNVR WW1

Sydney William - Attacking an Austrian Aerodrome near Sacile, Italy, 1918


Karl Alexander Wilke (1879 – 1954) – Austrian artist;

Christopher David Williams (1873 – 1934) - Welsh artist.

C.R. Fleming Williams

Scottie Wilson (1891 - 1972) – Ceramic Artist; served  in Scottish Rifles on Western Front; 

William Barnes Wollen (1857 - 1936) – British Artist "Defeat of the Prussian Guard, Ypres, 1914"


Garnet Ruskin Wolseley - 1884 – 1967 – served in RN during WW1; 

Donald Wood (1889-1953) – British artist; Friends’ Ambulance Unit W. Front; 

Starr Wood (1870 – 1944) – cartoonist

Ursula Wood (1868 - 1925) - joined the Forestry Corps of the Women's  Land Army WW1

William Thomas Wood (1877 – 1958) – official artist WW1 in the Balkans


Richard Caton Woodville Jr. (1856 – 1927); 

Margaret Wrighton (1877 – 1976) – British Sculptor

Charles William Wyllie ROI, RBA (1853 – 1923) – camouflage artist WW1 – younger brother of William Lionel Wyllie

William Lionel Wyllie (1851 - 1931) – Artist  - “The Track of Lusitania”; 

Frederick C. Yohn (1875 - 1933) - American