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| ARTIST: | Warren Williams |
| DATES: | British 1863 - 1918 |
| TITLE: | Finding the Scent |
| MEDIUM: | Watercolour |
| SIZE: | 24 x 38 cm |
| REMARKS: | Signed |
| $NZ: | Category C |
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Warren WILLIAMS FRCA. British 1863 - 1941 Born in Holyhead in 1863, Hugh Warren Williams was raised in Liverpool. His early interest in art gradually developed into a passion, and he joined the Liverpool School of Art under John Finnie. At art school Williams’ aptitude for landscape and seascape painting was honed and was to become of immense use to the young artist during his period of employment as staff artist with Dennis Limited, colour printers of Scarborough and London. During this time Williams illustrated various works including Historic Warwick. Overall Dennis Limited reproduced over 600 of Williams’ pictures and drawings, and as a result the artist became well known throughout Britain and was asked to exhibit at several leading galleries, including the Royal Cambrian Academy (of which he was a founding member). For a time Williams was also employed by the Slade School of Art to teach painting. In 1898 Williams returned to Wales, settling in Conway. He found much to inspire him in the landscape and coastal scenery of his native land, and his work began to attract the attention of art connoisseurs worldwide. The South African Government purchased several of his works for public exhibition at Durban and Pietermaritzburg. Further, he was asked to produce illustrations for tourism posters advertising Wales, and was also commissioned to produce miniature Welsh scenes for Queen Mary’s dolls’ house at Windsor. In the 1930s Williams moved to Dwygyfylchi, between Penmaenmawr and Conway. He died there on 1st September 1941. His daughter, Nest Warren, became a member of the Royal Academy and was commissioned to paint Sir Winston Churchill’s portrait for Churchill College, Oxford University. |
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