德弗雷尔出生在 夏洛茨维尔，Virginia 在一个英国家庭，他们搬回英国，沃尔特两岁的时候。他在研究艺术 皇家学院 学校，在那里他遇到了 罗塞蒂 。他和罗塞蒂共用一个工作室1851。拉斐尔前派成立于1848，和罗塞蒂的影响，德弗雷尔的工作在开始显示出运动的影响，同时仍保留功能的更多特征早期 风俗画画家 喜欢 查尔斯··· 。这是德弗雷尔谁“发现” 伊丽莎白西德尔 ，拉斐尔前派最重要的早期模型。然而，尽管他吸引了她，后来她嫁给了罗塞蒂。罗塞蒂的助手 亨利treffry邓恩 被推荐的位置由德弗雷尔。 后辞职 詹姆士·柯林 从PRB，罗塞蒂提出，德弗雷尔应该取代他，但没有决定过。

德弗雷尔完成了很少的重要作品，表现出只有四的画在该在他早期死亡 明亮的病 在二十七岁的时候。他住在 英国皇家植物园 ，现在伦敦的一部分，在那里他的画作之一， 一个宠物 ，是在他家里做的。

De Freire was born in Charlottesville, Virginia in a British family, they moved back to England, when Walter 2. He studied at the Royal College of art, where he met Rossetti. He shared a studio with Rossetti 1851. The Brotherhood was founded in 1848, and Rossetti's influence, de Freire's work in the beginning to show the effects of exercise, while still retaining the function more features of the early genre painters love Charles. This is de Freire Elizabeth Sidell, who "discovered" early models of the most important pre raphaelite. However, even though he attracted her, she later married Rossetti. Rossetti's assistant, treffry Dunn was recommended by the location of the de Freire. After the resignation of James Colin from PRB, Rossetti suggested that de Freire should replace him, but no decision.
De Freire completed a few important works, showing only four paintings in his early death in the bright disease at the age of twenty-seven. He lives in the Royal Botanic Gardens, now part of London, where one of his paintings, a pet, he is in the home to do.