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Edward WilliamsEnglish Figurative Landscape Painting oil on canvas 19th century1834
1834
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Edward Williams, born in London in the 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 artist: his mother, Mary Ward, was the sister of the animal painter James Ward and of the engraver William Ward, but alsothe 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, junior 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.
Edward Williams between 1814 and 1855 exhibited at the Royal Academy (36 works), the British Institution (21 works), the 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 (1628-1682) 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 folliated trees with stippled leaves.
As Edward Williams developed his own 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, hint of some of the work of his uncle George Morland. He rarely signed his work, perhaps but one painting in a hundred, and when he did he signed simply as E.Wms.
- Creator:Edward Williams (1782 - 1855, English)
- Creation Year:1834
- Dimensions:Height: 35.83 in (91 cm)Width: 28.35 in (72 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Florence, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU124027313962
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