Walter William Ouless RA (21 September 1848 – 25 December 1933)[1][2] was a British portrait painter from Jersey.

He became an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1877 and a full member (RA) in 1881.

He was born in 1848 at 53 Paradise Row, New Street, Saint Helier, at the home where his father, marine artist Philip John Ouless, had established his studio in the previous year.

He was educated at Victoria College and went to London in 1864, where he entered the Royal Academy schools in 1865.

Ouless was "one of the best-known portraitists of the latter years of the nineteenth century",[3] regarded as an "impressive exponent of character".