Notable burials · Arts and entertainment
Painters, sculptors and photographers buried in Virginia
Wikidata records 95 artists as buried in 25 of the cemeteries we list in Virginia. Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington holds the most, with 53. Virginia has the 5th highest count of any state, out of 2,295 nationally.
People recorded as painters, sculptors, photographers, illustrators or visual artists.
95
artists
25
cemeteries
2%
of notable burials in Virginia
1950s
the decade with the most deaths (13)
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In order of death
Painters, sculptors and photographers buried in Virginia
- William Hodgsondied 1806American painter known as the Payne LimnerSaint Johns Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Wilson Miles Cary Fairfax1798-1860Engineer, former West Point cadetChrist Church Episcopal Cemetery, Alexandria, VA
- William Randolph Barbee1818-1868American sculptorGreen Hill Cemetery, Luray, VA
- William Barksdale Myers1833-1873American artistHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- George Waynflete Patten1808-1882American soldier and poetArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- George W. Davis1824-1892American photographer (ca.1824-1892)Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- William Henry Prestele1838-1895German botanical artistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Albert G. Brackett1829-1896American military officerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Albert Ordway1843-1897American soldier and naturalistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Jennetta Conrad1811-1898American artistWoodbine Cemetery, Harrisonburg, VA
- Lelia Smith Cocke1859-1899American painterCocke Cemetery, Hollins, VA
- George S. Cook1819-1902American photographerHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Edward S. Lumpkin1840-1912American photographerHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Vinnie Ream1847-1914American sculptorArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Martha Jefferson Trist Burke1826-1915Great-granddaughter of Thomas JeffersonIvy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, VA
- Moses Jacob Ezekiel1844-1917American sculptorArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Samuel Woodson Price1828-1918American painter and military generalArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Arthur Dawson1858-1922British photographerRiverview Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Mary Jeffery Galt1844-1922PreservationistElmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, VA
- Alice Estelle Willoughby1865-1924American artistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Henry Reuterdahl1870-1925American artistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Edyth Carter Beveridge1862-1927JournalistHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Edward Virginius Valentine1838-1930American sculptorHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Robert Wilson Shufeldt1850-1934American scientistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Chester Harding1866-1936Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, 1917 to 1921Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Robert Howe Fletcher1850-1936American illustrator, novelist, college presidentArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- American artistMaury Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- John Roy Lynch1847-1939American politician from MississippiArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Ernest Peixotto1869-1940American artist and writerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- William Henry Jackson1843-1942American photographer and painterArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Margaret Howard Yeaton Hoyt1885-1943American artistStonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, VA
- W. I. Lincoln Adams1865-1946American photographer and non-fiction writerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Irone Hancock Sessions Russell1866-1946American sculptor and inventorArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Susan Brown Chase1868-1948American painterArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Lester J. Ambrose1879-1949American painter and cartoonistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Huestis P. Cook1868-1951American photographerHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Thomas Tileston Waterman1900-1951American architect and photographerSpring Hill Cemetery, West Lynchburg, VA
- Sallie Lee Blount Mahood1864-1953American artistSpring Hill Cemetery, West Lynchburg, VA
- Nelson E. Edwards1887-1954American newsreel cameraman and war photographerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Ellen Isham Schutt1873-1955American botanical illustrator and lithographerColumbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Emma Sutton Carter Bennett Marquez1890-1956American artistThornrose Cemetery, Staunton, VA
- Charles Johnson Post1873-1956American painter, etcher, and cartoonist, 1873-1956Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Mary Hutchinson Peixotto1869-1956American painter and writerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Mary Baughman1874-1956American physicianHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Carol Wharton1907-1958Staff correspondent for the Baltimore Evening SunArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Margaret Dashiell1867-1958Illustrator and businesspersonHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Blair Niles1880-1959American writer, explorer and photographerLakeview Cemetery, Blackstone, VA
- Catherine Parker Melton1888-1959American artistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Adolph B. Rice1909-1960American photographerRiverview Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Ludwig Bemelmans1898-1962Author of Madeline booksArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Bradford Perin1888-1963American artistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Julia Egerton Dibblee Eckel1870-1964American artistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Ronald Charles Blackmore1909-1966New Zealand photographer and visual aids officerWoodlawn Memorial Gardens, Chesapeake, VA
- Ashley Chadbourne McKinley1896-1970American aviator and United States Army officerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- George H. Ben Johnson1888-1970American artistEvergreen Cemetery, Montrose, VA
- Laura Nevitt Dupuy1893-1971American artistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Carroll K. Bassett1906-1972Maplewood Cemetery, Gordonsville, VA
- Edna Leroy Crenshaw Rex1893-1972American artistHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Anne Fuller Abbott1886-1973American artistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Mary P. E. Saltzman1878-1974Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Louise Kidder Sparrow1884-1979American sculptor and poetArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Pietro Lazzari1895-1979Italian painter and sculptorNational Memorial Park, West Falls Church, VA
- Lloyd B. Embry1913-1979American portrait painterNational Memorial Park, West Falls Church, VA
- Helen Mahood McGehee1892-1980American artistPresbyterian Cemetery, Lynchburg, VA
- Cornelia R. Yuditsky1895-1980American artistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Maeble Perry Edwards1902-1981American sculptorArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Charles Russhon1911-1982American photographerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Jan Henryk de Rosen1891-1982Polish-born painterColumbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Martha Moffett Bache1893-1983American artistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Mary Wingfield Scott1895-1983American historic preservationistHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Edmund Archer1904-1986American painterHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Jackson Miles Abbott1920-1988OrnithologistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Richard H. Jansen1910-1988American painterArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Harry N. Naltchayan1925-1994Lebanese photographerColumbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Margaret Garrison Estey1911-1996American artistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Walter H. Miller1909-1999American photographerWilliamsburg Memorial Park, Williamsburg, VA
- Willard A. Downes1908-2000American artistFredericksburg Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg, VA
- Marcella Comès Winslow1905-2000American painterArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Felix de Weldon1907-2003Austrian-american sculptorArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Richard R. Conger1921-2003American photographerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Noche Crist1909-2004American artistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Leo J. Meyer1917-2006Recipient of the Purple Heart medalArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Dith Pran1942-2008Cambodian photojournalistChestnut Grove Cemetery, Herndon, VA
- Cecil W. Stoughton1920-2008American photographerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Florence Bessom Higgs1905-2008American artistColumbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Samuel Bookatz1910-2009American artistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Charles Waterhouse1924-2013Recipient of the Purple Heart medalArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Greta Zimmer Friedman1924-2016Austrian-born American woman in iconic photoArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Charlotte Robinson1924-2016American painterArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Kenneth Victor Young1933-2017American artistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Norman Hatch1921-2017United States MarineArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Alan Bean1932-2018American astronaut and painterArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Hamilton Reed Armstrong1937-2020American sculptor and professorGood Hope Cemetery, Front Royal, VA
- Doug Welty1959-2021American public affairs professionalColumbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Brian Shul1948-2023American pilotArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Over time
Deaths by decade
- 1800s1
- 1860s2
- 1870s1
- 1880s1
- 1890s6
- 1900s1
- 1910s5
- 1920s5
- 1930s6
- 1940s7
- 1950s13
- 1960s5
- 1970s10
- 1980s10
- 1990s3
- 2000s10
- 2010s6
- 2020s3
By recorded year of death, for the 95 people with one.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Arlington National Cemetery · Arlington, VA53
- Hollywood Cemetery · Richmond, VA12
- Columbia Gardens Cemetery · Arlington, VA5
- Spring Hill Cemetery · West Lynchburg, VA2
- National Memorial Park · West Falls Church, VA2
- Riverview Cemetery · Richmond, VA2
- Presbyterian Cemetery · Lynchburg, VA1
- Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery · Alexandria, VA1
- Saint Johns Cemetery · Richmond, VA1
- Evergreen Cemetery · Montrose, VA1
- Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery · Fredericksburg, VA1
- Ivy Hill Cemetery · Alexandria, VA1
- Lakeview Cemetery · Blackstone, VA1
- Williamsburg Memorial Park · Williamsburg, VA1
- Woodlawn Memorial Gardens · Chesapeake, VA1
- Green Hill Cemetery · Luray, VA1
- Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery · Lexington, VA1
- Elmwood Cemetery · Norfolk, VA1
- Chestnut Grove Cemetery · Herndon, VA1
- Maury Cemetery · Richmond, VA1
- Maplewood Cemetery · Gordonsville, VA1
- Cocke Cemetery · Hollins, VA1
- Good Hope Cemetery · Front Royal, VA1
- Thornrose Cemetery · Staunton, VA1
- Woodbine Cemetery · Harrisonburg, VA1
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Other notable burials in Virginia
World War II veterans1,175World War I veterans815American Civil War veterans444Medal of Honor recipients401Spanish-American War veterans353Korean War veterans314United States representatives305Writers and poets279Vietnam War veterans213Aviators and astronauts171Journalists125Inventors and engineers113Business leaders92Physicians86Scientists86United States senators85American football players81Governors64Mexican-American War veterans53Actors50Musicians and singers45Baseball players43Architects23Supreme Court justices19Basketball players18
Method
How this list is made
A person is on this list when their Wikidata entry gives a cemetery we list as their place of burial and also carries the statement this list is built on. We do not add anyone by judgment, so the list reflects how complete Wikidata is: some people are missing, and burial places can be disputed.
Names, years and descriptions are shown as Wikidata records them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists.