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| | William Aiken Walker (1839-1921) - Fine Art Dealers Association |
 | | Born in Charleston, Walker was a successful itinerant artist who spent much of his life traveling around the South between Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Louisiana, creating paintings of rural and urban genre scenes, figures and landscapes. |
 | | In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate Army, and saw action in Virginia, where he was wounded. |
 | | Walker was subsequently transferred back to Charleston, where he resumed art work as a draftsman and cartographer in the engineering corps until 1864. |
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