BENJAMIN WILLIAMS LEADER R. A. (1831 – 1923)
“Cottage Children Blowing Bubbles”
Pencil Drawing. 9 ¾” x 11
¾” (248 x 298mm).
From the family collection – Sothebys
1983.
Illustrated in “Benjamin Williams Leader RA,
His Life and Paintings by Ruth Wood, page 15. IMAGE
WE ALSO HAVE A COLLECTION OF MOUNTED DRAWINGS BY THIS ARTIST
Benjamin Williams Leader
was a landscape and coastal painter who was born Benjamin Williams but took the
surname Leader to distinguish himself from the large Williams family of artists
to whom he was not related. He married
the artist Mary Eastlake and was the father of Benjamin Eastlake Leader. He was elected Associate of the Royal Academy
in 1883, rising to full Membership in 1898.
He lived at Whittington in Worcestershire in 1880 and Gomshall, Guildford in Surrey in 1890 and exhibited his
work at Thomas Agnew and Sons Gallery, Royal Society of Artists Birmingham,
Carfax and Co. Gallery, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Manchester City Art
Gallery, the Royal Academy, the Royal Cambrian Academy, the Royal Hibernian
Academy, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and Arthur Tooth and Sons
Gallery. Paintings by Benjamin Williams
Leader are in the permanent collections of the Tate Gallery; the Victoria and
Albert Museum; Manchester City Art Gallery; Bristol Museum and Art Gallery; the
Royal Academy of Arts; Atkinson Art Gallery; Williamson Art Gallery and Museum; the
National Museums of Northern Ireland;
National Museum of Wales; Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum and a great
many other public collections, art galleries and museums throughout Great Britain.
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