Pinacotheca Philosophica

Philosophy and Philosophers in Art

 

Wankie Wladyslaw (1860-1925)

·        Wankie. St. Augustine (prior to 1907, Plock, Mazovian Museum)

Ward Edward Matthew (1816-1879)

·        Ward Edward Matthew. Sir Thomas More’s Farewell to His Daughter ()

Wassenhove Josse van – see: Joos van Ghent

Waterhouse John William (1849-1917)

·        Waterhouse. Dante and Beatrice: Sketch (private collection)

·        Waterhouse. Diogenes (1882, Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales)

Watts George Frederick (1817-1904)

·        Watts George Frederick. Physical Energy (1878, London, Hyde Park)

o   Physical Energy (an alternative view)

·        Watts George Frederick. Portrait of Thomas Carlyle (private collection)

Weber Hermann ()

·        Weber Hermann. Averroës and Ibn al-‘Arabi ()

o   Averroës (Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198)

o   Ibn al-‘Arabi (1165-1240)

Weekes Henry (1807-1877)

·       Weekes (after William Wright) Francis Bacon (1845, Cambridge, Trinity College)

West Benjamin (1738-1820)

·        West Benjamin. Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (c. 1805)

Whistler James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903)

·        Whistler. Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle (1872-1873, Glasgow, Art Gallery and Museum)

Williamson Francis John (1833-1920)

·       Williamson Francis John. Statue of Joseph Priestley: Recast of the 1874 original (1951, Birmingham, Chamberlain Square)

o   Statue of Joseph Priestley (detail, enlarged)

o   Statue of Joseph Priestley (half-side view: left)

o   Statue of Joseph Priestley (side view: right)

o   American Sculptor (19th or 20th century, after Francis John Williamson). Statue of Joseph Priestley: A painted plaster copy (Philadelphia, Chemical Heritage Foundation)

o   English Sculptor (after Francis John Williamson). Statue of Joseph Priestley (London, Burlington House: The Royal Society of Chemistry)

o   English Artist (19th century). Statue of Dr. Priestley at Birmingham (the original by Francis John Williamson) (1874, London, Wellcome Library)

Woolner Thomas (1825-1892)

·        Woolner. Frances Bacon (1857, Oxford, Natural History Museum)

Wright John Michael (1617-1694)

·       Wright John Michael. Thomas Hobbes (c. 1669-1670, London, National Portrait Gallery)

·       Wright John Michael. Thomas Hobbes (date unknown, London, National Portrait Gallery)

Wright Joseph (1734-1797)

·        Wright Joseph. A Philosopher Lecturing with a Mechanical Planetary (1766, Derby, Derby Museum and Art Gallery)

Wright William (17th century)

·        Wright William. Memorial to Francis Bacon (1626, St. Albans, St. Michael’s Church)

o   Memorial to Francis Bacon (detail)

o   Brucciani Domenico (after William Wright). Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban (c. 1875, London, National Portrait Gallery)

o   Weekes (after William Wright) Francis Bacon (1845, Cambridge, Trinity College)