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William Louis Walton

British painter and lithographer, active 1834-1855 (1796–1872)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ23872412 ↗
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William Louis Walton (1808?-4 May 1879) was a prolific English lithographer active in London in the nineteenth century.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1808, 1879—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1796. For this dossier, William, Louis and Walton is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “William Louis Walton” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.