休·威廉·威廉姆斯
苏格兰希腊风景画家
Hugh William Williams FRSE, known as "Grecian Williams," was a Scottish landscape painter. Williams was born onboard the ship of his father, Captain Williams, whilst en route to the West Indies. His mother, "Miss Lewis", died in 1782, and his father, being unable to care for the nine-year-old Hugh, left him in the care of Louis Ruffini, a textile manufacturer in Dalkeith. Ruffini encouraged Hugh to become a painter. For some years he concentrated on Highland landscapes. 由当时刚卸任的议员、业余艺术家威廉·道格拉斯资助并陪同，他在意大利和希腊进行了长期旅行，并于1818年返回。这次旅行赋予了他的作品独特的风格，也使他获得了"希腊人威廉斯"的绰号。1822年，威廉斯举办了一场以此次旅行为基础的水彩画展览。展览获得了评论界的好评，其中描绘的废墟和希腊历史的著名场景与当时的审美趣味相契合。 威廉斯是1808年与安德鲁·威尔逊共同创立的水彩画家协会（Associated Artists in Watercolour）的创始成员，该协会存在时间短暂；他还是爱丁堡皇家学会的副会员。在晚年，他对苏格兰学院与该学会艺术家副会员的拟议合并产生了兴趣，这一安排在他去世一个月后完成。 他于1823年当选为爱丁堡皇家学会会士，由大卫·布鲁斯特爵士提名。 他于1829年6月23日在爱丁堡第一新城城堡街65号的家中去世。他被安葬在卡农盖特教堂墓地，位于其岳父母——厄诺克的米勒家族的墓穴中。他的妻子罗比娜·米勒于1874年去世。该墓地位于东侧扩展区域，毗邻通往主墓地的通道。
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Parent child
- Oliver Rhys Child
Artworks by this artist (14 total)
- Landscape, North Wales
- Taormina, Sicily
- Mountainous Landscape with a Party of Travellers (Scene on the River Pellene Achaia) 1818[-]29
- A Rowing Boat
- View of Thebes
- View of the town and castle of Dumbarton 1795
- De tempel van Antoninus en Faustina te Rome 1816 - 1820
- Castle in a Landscape
- Wychwood Forest 1806
- View of the Forum in Rome 1828
- The Erechtheum, Athens
- Near Stirling, Scotland
- Birnam Wood before 1801
- Bothwell Castle, Lanarkshire 1798