Old Master & British Works on Paper
Old Master & British Works on Paper
Property from a British Private Collection
Hugh William 'Grecian' Williams
The entrance into Glen Coe, Scotland
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July 6, 04:55 PM GMT
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1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Property from a British Private Collection
Hugh William 'Grecian' Williams
Probably Devon 1773 - 1829 Edinburgh
The entrance into Glen Coe, Scotland
Pen and grey ink and brown wash, original wash-line mount;
inscribed and dated verso: Entrance into Glen Coe / Drawing on the spot / by H. Wl Williams Esq / 1812
390 by 545 mm
H. Mallalieu, The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920, Woodbridge 2002, p. 266, illust.
Williams was born at sea, the son of a sea captain. He was bought up in Edinburgh and studied under David Allan (1744-1796). In the 1790s he was to carry out extensive sketching tours of the British Isles, before traveling through Italy and Greece in the 1810s. His publication Travels in Italy, Greece and the Ionian Islands (1820) secured his reputation but it has been said that, in his early years, on occasion, he approached the atmosphere achieved by John Robert Cozens.1
1. H. Mallalieu, lit.op.cit, p. 266