休·威廉·威廉姆斯
蘇格蘭希臘風景畫家
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. 由當時剛卸任的議員、業餘藝術家威廉·道格拉斯資助並陪同,他在義大利和希臘進行了長期旅行,並於1818年返回。這次旅行賦予了他的作品獨特的風格,也使他獲得了「希臘人威廉斯」的綽號。1822年,威廉斯舉辦了一場以此次旅行為基礎的水彩畫展覽。展覽獲得了評論界的好評,其中描繪的廢墟和希臘歷史的著名場景與當時的審美趣味相契合。 威廉斯是1808年與安德魯·威爾遜共同創立的水彩畫家協會(Associated Artists in Watercolour)的創始成員,該協會存在時間短暫;他還是愛丁堡皇家學會的副會員。在晚年,他對蘇格蘭學院與該學會藝術家副會員的擬議合併產生了興趣,這一安排在他去世一個月後完成。 他於1823年當選為愛丁堡皇家學會會士,由大衛·布魯斯特爵士提名。 他於1829年6月23日在愛丁堡第一新城城堡街65號的家中去世。他被安葬在卡農蓋特教堂墓地,位於其岳父母——厄諾克的米勒家族的墓穴中。他的妻子羅比娜·米勒於1874年去世。該墓地位於東側擴展區域,毗鄰通往主墓地的通道。
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- Oliver Rhys Child
Artworks by this artist (14 total)
- Wychwood Forest 1806
- 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
- View of the Forum in Rome 1828
- The Erechtheum, Athens
- Near Stirling, Scotland
- Birnam Wood before 1801
- Bothwell Castle, Lanarkshire 1798