Artist
William Heatley Wilder
William Heatley Wilder is a Realism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Detroit Institute of Arts.
William Heatley Wilder painted 19th-century portraits of religious figures and early nuns. His brush captured Marie France Vindevogel, First Abbess of the St. Clair Sisters in 1833 and Bishop Rese in 1837. Both oils sit in the same quiet tradition as early American folk art, earnest, clear-eyed, and modest in scale.
Tap the stiff lace collar of Marie France to step into the 1830s parlor where her portrait first hung.
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