Wilfrid Williams Ball (1853–1917) was a British Victorian and Edwardian painter of landscapes and marine subjects.

[3] He gained his first substantive notice when James Abbott McNeill Whistler admired a series of etchings of the Thames River that he did in 1881–82.

[3] Although Ball continued to make etchings, his major success came from watercolors of rural landscapes and marine subjects, especially in the counties of Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Norfolk, Sussex, Wiltshire, and Hampshire.

[2] Writing about him after his death, the art critic C. Lewis Hind observed of him that he had no revolutionary ideas and no particular ambition, but that his work was in demand throughout his career because it offered serenely pastoral and picturesque views of England that people wanted to hang on their walls.

[2][4] Ball published two lavish books of his work in the A&C Black twenty shilling series; one of Hampshire in 1909 and an earlier one for Sussex in 1906.