威尔出生于1852年8月30日，第二个十六个孩子， 并提出在 西点军校，纽约 。他的父亲是画家 罗伯特沃尔特堰 ，一个画在军事学院教授 西点军校 谁教这样的艺术家 James Abbott mcneill惠斯勒 。他的哥哥， 约翰·福格森·威尔 ，也成为一个著名的风景画家画的风格 哈德逊河 和 巴比松画派 学校他在绘画和设计教授 耶鲁大学 1869、开始第一个学术艺术计划在美国校园里。

Julian Weir在收到他的第一个艺术培训 国家设计研究院 在19世纪70年代初入校前在 美术学院 在巴黎1873。他在法国时学习法国著名艺人 让我gérôme ，并成为好朋友 朱勒巴斯蒂安· 。时堰. 印象主义 这是第一次，反应强烈：“我从来没有在我的生活中看到了更可怕的事情…他们没有观察绘画还是形式而给你的印象，他们所谓的自然。这是比恐怖更糟糕。”他抱怨印象派在1877年4月15日给父母的一封信说，“他们不遵守绘画还是形式而给你所谓的自然”的印象。作为一个保守的学院派画家在他的职业生涯的这个阶段，威尔很尊敬他的欧洲同行们在他的训练年限。

威尔会见 詹姆斯·惠斯勒 在伦敦之前，在1877回纽约。回到纽约后，威尔成为了美国艺术家协会的会员，继续展示他的作品在 国家设计研究院 在他第一次展示他的画，1875。他挣的工资通过肖像佣金和美术课的教学 库珀联盟 女性艺术学校的 艺术学生联盟 在私人课程。

最受好评的画的是威尔 红色的桥 从1895。这是一个技术杰作，显示桁架桥横跨 shetucket河 从堰的温德姆农场大街。他用互补的颜色统一形象等音质和描绘水上看到桥的现实思考。虽然是片中的图案统一，威尔对桥梁及其周边设置放置红色大桥在树林的绿色和蓝色的水和天空和并列的几何人造桥的树干和树枝的自然弯曲的曲线。

今天威尔的画的收藏 大都会艺术博物馆 的，纽约； 菲利普斯公司 华盛顿特区； 史密森美国艺术博物馆 华盛顿特区； 杨伯翰大学 的 艺术博物馆 ，普罗沃，犹他；的 波特兰艺术博物馆 进入 波特兰，俄勒冈 ；和 沃兹沃思艺术学院 ，哈特福德，康涅狄格。威尔的农场和工作室在布兰奇维尔是受保护的 威尔农场国家历史遗址 ；威尔家族继续温德姆农场的所有权。他的论文是在 史密森 的 美国艺术档案馆 “。
 

Will was born in August 30, 1852, second of sixteen children, and raised in West Point, New York. His father is a painter Robert Walter weir, who taught such artists as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, a professor of painting at the West Point military academy. His brother, John Ferguson Will, became a famous landscape painter painting style of the Hudson River and the Barbizon school he taught at Yale University in 1869, began painting and design art first academic program in the United States on campus.
Julian Weir in his first art training national design institute received in early 1870s before enrolling at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris in 1873. He studied French famous artists in France's me r let me g, and become a good friend of Jules Bastien. When Impressionism weir. This is the first time that a strong response: "I have never in my life saw a more terrible thing... They don't look at paintings or forms and give you an impression of what they call nature. It's worse than terror." A letter he complained about Impressionism to parents in April 15, 1877 said, "they do not keep painting or form and give you a" natural "impression. As a conservative school painter at this stage of his occupation career, will respect his European counterparts in his training period.
Will meets James Whistler in London before returning to New York in 1877. After returning to New York, will become a member of the association of American artists, continue to show his works in the National Academy of design in his first exhibition of his paintings, 1875. He earns through the school female art teaching alliance Cooper portrait commissions and art lessons at the Art Students League in private courses.
The most acclaimed painting is the Will red bridge from 1895. This is a technical masterpiece, showing the truss bridge across the Shetucket River from the weir of Wyndham farm avenue. He used complementary colors to unify the image and other sound quality and to depict the reality of the water to see the bridge. Although the same piece of the pattern, natural curve of the bridge and its periphery will place the Red Bridge in the woods of green and blue water and sky and tied to the geometry of the trunks and branches of artificial bridge.
Today his collection of paintings in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Phillips, Washington D.C.; the Smithson Museum of American Art in Washington D.C.; Brigham Young University Art Museum, Provo, Utah; Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon; and the Wadsworth Art Institute, Hartford, Connecticut. Will's farm and studio was protected by the Will ranch national historic site in Virginia Blanche; the Will family continued to ownership of Wyndham farm. His paper is at the Smithson Museum of American art".