Terrick Williams, (1860-1936)
Moonlight, Venice
Oil on canvas
71 x 107 cm.
Private collection
Estimated for 18 000 - 20 600 USD in May 2020
John Terrick Williams RA (20 July 1860 – 20 July
1936). Williams was born in Liverpool, England, the son of a
businessman. He was educated at Kings College School, London. Determination to
become an artist he move to Europe and studied under Charles Verlat in Antwerp
and later at the Académie Julian and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant,
William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury in Paris.
Williams
focussed on landscape and marine subjects and painted in oil, pastel and
watercolour. He travelled extensively and his impressionistic, luminous
paintings sought the transient effects of light and reflections in Venice, St.
Tropez, Paris, Brittany and St. Ives.
He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters
in Water Colours in 1904. His work was regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy
from 1891. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (A.R.A.) on 18
November 1924, a Royal Academician (R.A.) on 14 February 1933, and a Senior
R.A. on 1 January 1936. In 1933 he was also elected President of the RI. He
died on his birthday in 1936 aged 76. After his death a memorial exhibition was
held at the Fine Art Society in 1937. More on John Terrick
Williams
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