William Thompson Walters was an American businessman and art collector, whose collection formed the basis of the Walters Art Museum.
Walters in 1883 by French artist Léon Bonnat
Ellen Harper Walters (George Augustus Baker, circa 1859)
Gravestone detail
Bust by Rinehart of Walters' wife Ellen (Harper) Walters
Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the Mount Vernon section of Baltimore, Maryland. Founded and opened in 1934, it holds collections from the mid-19th century that were amassed substantially by major American art and sculpture collectors, including William Thompson Walters and his son Henry Walters. William Walters began collecting when he moved to Paris as a nominal Confederate loyalist at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, and Henry Walters refined the collection and made arrangements for the construction what ultimately was Walters Art Museum.
Museum entrance, North Charles Street, Baltimore
Phoenician metal bowls
Sumerian male worshiper, c. 2300 BC
Padiiset's Statue, illustrates Canaan - Ancient Egypt trade, c. 1700 B.C. (inscription c. 900 B.C.)