William Dacres Adams Art

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.