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William Dacres Adams Art

British, 1864-1951

William Dacres Adams, a painter and lithographer of portraits and architectural subjects. Adams was born in Reading. He was educated at Radley College and Exeter College, Oxford. He studied law in Birmingham but in 1884, abandoned his studies to train at the Birmingham School of Art. He studied at Sir Hubert Herkomers School of Art at Bushey and in Munich, Germany from 1886–90. Adams was elected as a member of the Royal Portrait Society and was an Associate Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He exhibited extensively at the Fine Art Society, three one-man shows during the 1920s. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute and Leicester Galleries. His work was greatly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites with whom his father was acquainted from school days. Some of his works are in the collections of The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Worcester College, Oxford, Museum of Fine Art, San Francisco and Wellington Art Gallery, New Zealand. Adams lived for some time at Lechlade, Gloucestershire and finally at Lewes, Sussex.

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Artist: William Dacres Adams
The Tower of London - British 20's art nocturne city landscape oil painting
The Tower of London - British 20's art nocturne city landscape oil painting

The Tower of London - British 20's art nocturne city landscape oil painting

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A really lovely oil on canvas painting by noted British artist William Dacres Adams. It was painted circa 1920 and depicts the Tower of London at night. A fine nocturne, the glow of ...

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