WILLIAM THOMPSON WALTERS
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An American merchant and art virtuoso; born in Pennsylvania, 1820; died 1891. He was educated as an engineer; became identified with the coal and iron industry; was art commissioner from the United States at the Paris Expositions (1867-78), at Vienna (1873), and trustee of the Corcoran Gallery at Washington, D.C. His private art gallery is the most extensive and valuable (especially in Oriental ceramics) in this country. He has published: "Barye" (1885); "The Percheron Horse" (1886); and "Notes upon Certain Masters of the XIXth Century" (1886).
By Charles Dudley Warner
