William Wiehe Collins

(4 August 1862 – 16 February 1951) was an English architectural and landscape genre painter.

Between 1884 and 1885, Collins studied at the Lambeth School of Art following which he attended the Académie Julian in Paris between 1886 and 1887.

He travelled widely producing paintings in England, Spain and Italy.

[4] He died in Cossington, Somerset on 16 February 1951 leaving his wife, Jane.

[5] Collins' pencil and watercolour painting The market place, Ely was first exhibited in 1905[6] and was sold at auction on 19 November 1992 for £715.

Watercolour The Market Place, Ely by W W Collins published 1908 showing north-east aspect of Ely Cathedral in the background with the Almonry in front of that and the now demolished corn exchange building to the right of the picture
The Market Place, Ely , pencil and watercolour by W W Collins [ 1 ] published 1905 [ 2 ] showing north-east aspect of Ely Cathedral in the background with the Almonry [ 3 ] —now a restaurant and art gallery—in front of that and the now demolished corn exchange building to the right of the picture.