- Marion Wachtel (1875–1954)
- Yoshihiko Wada (born 1940)
- Alfons Walde (1891–1958)
- Karl Walser (1877–1943)
- Edward Wadsworth (1889–1949)
- Lionel Walden (1861–1933)
- Ada Hill Walker (1879–1955)
- Zygmunt Waliszewski (1897–1936)
- Kathleen Walne (1915–2011)
- Wang Duo (1592–1652)
- Wang E (1465–1545)
- Wang Fu (1362–1416)
- Wang Guxiang (1501–1568)
- Wang Hui (1632–1717)
- Wang Jian (1598–1677)
- Wang Lü (1332–?)
- Wang Meng (1308–1385)
- Wang Mian (1287–1359)
- Wang Shimin (1592–1680)
- Wang Shishen (1686–1759)
- Wang Shiyan (born 1949)
- Victor Wang (b.1956)
- Wang Wei (699–759)
- Wang Wu (1632–1690)
- Wang Ximeng (1096–1119)
- Wang Yi (1333-?)
- Wang Yuan
- Wang Yuanqi (1642–1715)
- Wang Zhenpeng
- Wang Zhongyu
- Everett Warner (1877–1963)
- Wang Meng (1308–1385)
- Laura Wheeler Waring (1887–1948)
- Alfred Wallis (1855–1942)
- Henry Wallis (1830–1916)
- Walenty Wańkowicz (1746?–1813?)
- Joan Warburton (1920–1996), British artist
- Andy Warhol (1928–1987)
- Watanabe Kazan (1793–1841)
- Watanabe Sadao (1913–1996)
- Watanabe Shōtei (1851–1918)
- Watanabe Shozabūrō
- John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)
- Billie Waters (1896–1979), English artist
- Alison Watt (born 1965)
- Antoine Watteau (1684–1721)
- George Frederic Watts (1817–1904)
- Stokely Webster (1912–2001)
- Jan Baptist Weenix (1621–1663)
- Gerda Wegener (1886–1940)
- Wang Wei (701–761)
- Carel Weight (1908–1997)
- Susan Weil (born 1930)
- Alden Weir (1852–1919)
- John Ellsworth Weis (1892–1962)
- Samuel Washington Weis (1870–1956)
- Jerry Weiss (born 1959)
- Wojciech Weiss (1875–1950)
- Neil Welliver (1929–2005)
- Margaret Bruce Wells (1909–1998)
- Albert Welti (1862–1912)
- Albert J. Welti (1894–1965)
- Wen Boren (1502–1575)
- Wen Jia (1501–1583)
- Wen Tong (1019–1079)
- Wen Zhengming (1470–1559)
- Wen Zhenheng (1585–1645)
- Kurt Wenner
- Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938)
- Adriaen van der Werff (1659–1722)
- Joseph Werner (1637–1710)
- Adolf Ulric Wertmüller (1751–1811)
- Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004)
- Benjamin West (1738–1820)
- William Edward West (1788–1859)
- Konstantin Westchilov (1877–1945)
- Katerina Wilczynski (1894–1978), Polish artist
- Jacob Willemszoon de Wet (1610–1691)
- Rogier van der Weyden (1399–1464)
- Edith Grace Wheatley (1888–1970), English painter
- John Laviers Wheatley (1892–1955), Welsh painter
- Bessie Wheeler (born 1876)
- James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)
- Dee Whitcomb
- Brett Whiteley (1939–1992)
- Charmion von Wiegand (1896–1983)
- Hans Beat Wieland (1867–1945)
- Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen (1576–1633)
- Antoine Wiertz (1806–1865), Belgian painter and sculptor
- Bjørn Wiinblad (1918–2006)
- Thomas Wijck (1616–1677)
- Jan Wijnants (1632–1684)
- Jerry Wilkerson (born 1943)
- David Wilkie (1785–1841)
- Abraham Willaerts (1603–1669)
- Adam Willaerts (1577–1664)
- Adolphe Willette (1857–1926)
- Charles Williams (born 1965)
- David Dougal Williams (1888–1944)
- Neil Williams (1934–1988)
- Harold Sandys Williamson (1892–1978), English painter
- Carel Willink (1900–1983)
- Thornton Willis (born 1936)
- Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (1863–1958)
- Donald Roller Wilson (born 1938)
- Richard Wilson (1713–1782)
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805–1873)
- Stanisław Witkiewicz (1855–1915)
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885–1939)
- Emanuel de Witte (1617–1692)
- Caspar van Wittel (1653–1736)
- Uwe Wittwer (born 1954)
- Emanuel Witz (1717–1797)
- Konrad Witz (1410–1446)
- Henry Otto Wix (1866–1922), German-born American
- David Wojnarowicz (1954–1992)
- Kazimierz Wojniakowski (1772–1812)
- Witold Wojtkiewicz (1879–1909)
- Caspar Wolf (1735–1783)
- Adolf Wölfli (1864–1930)
- John Wollaston ( 1742–1775)
- John Wonnacott (born 1940)
- Toss Woollaston (1910–1998)
- John Christopher Wood (1901–1930)
- Grant Wood (1891–1942)
- Leona Wood (1921–2008)
- Ursula Wood (1868–1925), English artist and illustrator
- Charles H. Woodbury (1864–1940)
- William Woodward (1859–1939)
- Henry Woods (1846–1921)
- Troels Wörsel (born 1950)
- Thomas Frederick Worrall (1872-1957)
- Zao Wou Ki (born 1921)
- Philips Wouwerman (1619–1668)
- Cindy Wright (born 1972)
- Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797)
- Andrzej Wróblewski (1927–1957)
- Peter Wtewael (1596–1660)
- JoWOnder
- Wu Bin
- Wu Changshuo (1844–1927)
- Wu Guanzhong (born 1919)
- Wu Hong
- Wu Li (1632–1718)
- Wu Shixian (18??–1916)
- Wu Tao-Tzu (also known as Wu Daozi) (680–740)
- Wu Wei (1459–1508)
- Wu Zhen (1280–1354)
- Wu Zuoren (1908–1997)
- Paul Wunderlich (born 1927)
- Wuzhun Shifan (1178–1249)
- Jan Wyck (1652–1700)
- Leon Wyczółkowski (1852–1936)
- Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009)
- Henriette Wyeth (1907–1997)
- Jamie Wyeth (born 1946)
- C. Wyeth (1882–1945)
- Stanisław Wyspiański (1869–1907)
- Juliette Wytsman (1866–1925)
- Rodolphe Wytsman (1860–1927)
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