biografía de William WAUD (c.1830-1878)

Lugar de nacimiento: London, England

Lugar de defunción: Jersey City , NJ

Profesión: Civil war illustrator, architect, writer

Obra: LOC; Hist. New Orleans Coll.

Comentarios: Trained as an architect, he assisted Sir Joseph Paxton in the designing of the London Crystal Palace about 1851. He probably came to the United States with his brother, Alfred (see entry), about 1858 and was employed as an illustrator during the Civil War. His works appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly and Harper's Weekly,

Fuentes: G&W; Taft, Artists and Illustrators of the Old West, 296; Harper's Weekly, Nov. 30, 1878; Rutledge, Artists in the Life of Charleston.; Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 404; P&H Samuels, estimate that he was born before 1828 (p. 514); more recently, see Frederik E. Ray, Alfred R. Waud: Civil War Artist (Viking, 1974)