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William Thompson Walters (1820–1894)
Walters, William Thompson. An American merchant and art virtuoso; born in Pennsylvania, 1820; died in 1894. He was art commissioner from the United States at the Paris Expositions (1867–78), at Vienna (1873), and trustee of the Corcoran Gallery at Washington, DC. His private art gallery was extensive and valuable. He published: ‘Barye’ (1885); ‘The Percheron Horse’ (1886); and ‘Notes upon Certain Masters of the Nineteenth Century’ (1886).