William’s work is defined by its chinoiserie sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.

Library Ladder
William France (born England, 1759–1838) London Made for Badminton House, Badminton, Gloucestershire, England

Bedcover
Mary Elizabeth (née Motter) Tansill (American, 1847-1936) United States, Illinois, Clayton

Century Quilt
Mary Abigail Fessenden (American, 1816–1904/5) Maine, United States

Fragment of a Quilt
United States

Khayamiya
Egypt

Tavern Club, Interior Perspective of Mural, Chicago, Illinois, Presentation Drawing
Winold Reiss American, 1886–1953

Interior at Nice
Henri Matisse French, 1869–1954

Nothing is Enough
Frances Stark American, born 1967

Saint William of Maleval
After Salvator Rosa Italian, 1615-1673 Carlo Antonini ? c.1740 - c.1784

Women Fighting
William Rothenstein English, 1872-1945

Anne of Austria, Queen of France
Robert Nanteuil (French, 1623-1678) after Pierre Mignard I (French, 1612-1695)

Hyères, France
Henri Cartier-Bresson French, 1908–2004

Landscape in Provence
André Derain French, 1880-1954

Hollyhock House
Frances Myers American, born 1938

James William Wallack
Charles Robert Leslie American, born England, 1794–1859

Alice
William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916)

Landscape at Cagnes
Chaim Soutine French, born Minsk, Russia (present-day Belarus), 1893–1943

The Circle of the Thieves; Agnolo Brunelleschi Attacked by a Six-Footed Serpent. Inferno, canto XXV
William Blake English, 1757-1827

Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)

A City Park
William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916)