Artist
W. J. Alais
W. J. Alais is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Art.
W. J. Alais carved faces onto metal so precisely that a sitter’s wrinkles look like etched secrets. He spent his days in London’s print shops, where the scratch of burins and the smell of acid ink were as familiar as the chatter of neighbors. Look for his engraving of John Selden in the National Gallery of Art—it’s a quiet room where the subject’s legal robes seem to breathe, and you’ll wonder how a block of copper ever held so much life.
Works by W. J. Alais
Collections represented
Museum
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