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Edward Williams19th Century landscape oil painting of figures in a lane near Abbey ruins C1830
C1830
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Edward Williams
British, (1781-1855)
The Old Abbey Ruins
Oil on canvas
Image size: 22.25 inches x 30.75 inches
Size including frame: 28.25 inches x 36.75 inches
Provenance: Frost & Reed; Cider House Galleries
A wonderful landscape painting of Abbey ruins seen from a village by Edward Williams. In the foreground, a figure is shown resting by a village pond whilst further figures and a dog walk near a cottage. The ruins can be seen rising above a wooded area to the left. Whilst traditionally identified and titled ‘Wickham, Suffolk’, further research has revealed that this is not in fact the location of the painting. The ruins depicted are very likely to be those of Fountains Abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire. Williams is known to have travelled to a number of locations to paint medieval buildings such as Windsor Castle and Durham Cathedral. It is possible he visited Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire on his way to Durham.
Edward Williams was a landscape artist and father of the Williams family of artists. He was born in Lambeth, London in 1781 and was the son of the engraver Edward Williams (c.1755-1797) and Mary Ward, sister of James Ward, the animal painter and William Ward the engraver. His sons Edward Charles (1807-1881), Henry John Boddington (1811-1865), George Augustus (1813-1901), Arthur Gilbert 1819-1895), Sidney Richard Percy (1822-1886) and Alfred Walter (1824-1905) all became artists. His grandchildren also inherited his talent for painting and included Walter Williams (1834-1906), Caroline Fanny Williams (1836-1921), Charles Leslie (1839-1866), Kate Gilbert (1843-1916) and Herbert Sidney Percy (1863-1932). His family is also referred to as the Barnes School. He is sometimes known as ‘Old Edward’ to avoid confusion with his son.
He married Ann Hildebrandt on 12 February, 1806 at St Pancras Old Church, Camden and they went on to have 8 children, 6 of whom became artists. He started his career initially as an apprentice carver and gilder. However, by 1814 he had become a full time artist and made his debut at the Royal Academy. He began exhibiting at British Institution, Suffolk Street and elsewhere from 1815. Around this time Williams lived near the artists quarter associated with Tottenham Court Road in London.
By 1824, he was living at 6 Charlotte Street, St Pancras, later moving to 11 Gray’s Inn Terrace in St Pancras around 1827. From 1841, he lived at Cromer Street until his final move to 32 Castelnau Villas in Barnes, Surrey in 1846. There he set up a studio in the carriage house at the back and continued to paint and teach, surrounded by most of his sons, who either lived in the house or took houses close by. This communal artist setting gave rise to the Barnes School name. He painted many of the local Thames River, farm fields and wooded estates, often with the inclusion of figures such as in this fine example. Williams died at Castlenau Villas on 24 June, 1855 and was buried at Barnes Cemetery.
Examples of his work are held by Essex County Council, Norfolk Museum, Perth & Kinross Council, Sheffield Museum, the Tate and the York Museum.
Presentation: The work is housed in a new, English made gilt frame which is in excellent condition.
Condition: As with all of our original antique oil paintings, this work is offered in ready to hang gallery condition, having been professionally cleaned, restored and revarnished.
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- Creator:Edward Williams (1782 - 1855, English)
- Creation Year:C1830
- Dimensions:Height: 28.25 in (71.76 cm)Width: 36.75 in (93.35 cm)Depth: 2.75 in (6.99 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Nr Broadway, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU15629429852
Edward Williams
Edward Williams, born in London in 1781, was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era. He had six sons, who became well-known landscape painters as well. He came from a family of artists — his mother, Mary Ward, was the sister of the animal painter James Ward and the engraver William Ward, but also the sister-in-law of the figure-painter George Morland, and of the animal painter Henry Chalon; his father was an engraver who worked with John Raphael Smith. Edward Williams was sent around 1792 or 1793 to live with his maternal uncle James Ward, R.A. (1769–1859), but it seems unlikely that he received any painting instruction from him. Instead, he was informally apprenticed to a carver and gilder named Thomas Hillier, who had a shop on Carnaby Street and he became quite successful to enjoy a comfortable living. Williams between 1814–55 exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts (36 works), British Institution (21 works), Suffolk Street Gallery of the Society of British Artists (38 works), and elsewhere. He started by painting miniatures and copying Baroque landscapes from the 1600s in the style of the Dutch painters Ruisdael (1628–82) and Hobbema (1638–1709), the former known for woodland scenes with detailed renderings of trees, particularly the leaves, and water scenes with small boats moored beneath windmills; the latter known for his densely foliated trees with stippled leaves. As Williams developed his style, in which the figures, if present at all, were generally subordinate to the scenery, he moved on to contemporary landscapes of the English countryside that, not surprisingly, a hint of some of the work of his uncle George Morland.
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