WILLIAMS, Alfred Walter

1824 - 1905

Alfred Walter Williams was born at Southwark, London on 18 July 1824, son of artist Edward Williams and his wife Ann née Hildebrandt (1781-1851), who married at St Pancras, London on 12 February 1806 and a member of the Williams family of painters. A landscape painter in oil and watercolour and worked in the Southern Counties of England and in Scotland, Wales, the Lake District, France, and Italy. He exhibited at the Royal Academy 1843-1890, and at the Suffolk Fine Arts Association at Ipswich in 1850, two oil paintings 'A Willow Glen, on the Banks of the Thames' and 'A Valley Scene'. He married at Reigate, Surrey in 1888, Ann Hutchence (née Thornton) and by 1895 they had moved to 40 Croydon Road, Reigate. Alfred Walter Williams died at 31 Francis Road, Croydon, Surrey on 16 December 1905, aged 81.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 100 Cromer Street, Brunswick Square, London
1843 345 Old Mill, North Devon
         406 A Lane in Devonshire
1844 59 On the Medway, summer evening
         615 Near Henley on Thames, reed cutters
         1073 A Shady Lane, Kent. Children playing - min/drawing
1845 198 Waterfowl Shooting on the Thames
         315 Sheep Washing, Kent
         554 A Lane near Ashburton, Devon
         1011 A Devonshire Mill, evening - min/drawing
from Wimpole Street, London
1846 195 Eel Traps on the Thames
         268 On the Thames, eel spearing
         690 A Pond near Folkestone
from 32 Castelnan Villas, Barnes
1847 179 Autumn. The Shepherd's Repose
         572 Passing Storm on the Thames
         658 Broadford Mill, Horsmonden, Kent
         1277 A Mountain Pass near Roc, North Wales - min/drawing
1848 60 On Folk Common, Kent
         231 The Shepherd's Boy...Ambleside
         339 Autumnal Sunrise...Sevenoaks Common
1849 189 A Gust of Wind and Rain
         304 A Quiet Bend of the Thames
         467 Autumnal Noon...Betchworth, Surrey
1850 124 The Approach of a Storm
         236 Harvest Time, Stormy Weather
         300 Returning from Pasture to the Farm
         344 A Valley Lane
         1246 Sheep Washing
1851 425 Autumn...Burnham Beeches
         782 A Greenwood Shade
1852 928 A Calm: Morning on the Thames
1853 56 On the Thames near Magpie Ait
         454 A Welsh Stream: Morning
1854 477 Llyn Gwynant, North Wales
         691 A River Bank: Summer
1855 286 On Wimbledon Common, Surrey
         1153 The Valley of Tyndrum, Perthshire
1856 989 The Shepherd's Sabbath Evening
         1198 Hyn-Ddinsa, North Wales
1857 450 In the Welsh Meadows
         557 Crossing the Common
from Florence Villa, Wimbledon Park, Surrey
1858 316 Passing Showers
         1162 Spring Time
1859 797 Tending the Flock
         848 Autumnal Farming
from West Street, Reigate, Surrey
1860 416 Harvest Time
         538 Summer
1861 554 A Fresh Breeze
1862 412 In the Val Levantina, St Gothard Road, near Airolo
         512 The Mountains above Bellagio from Grianter, Lago de Como
1863 428 Ruins of the Ampitheatre Pozzuoli, Bay of Baiae
1864 11 Golden Acres
         108 On the Thames, near Streatley
1865 270 Summer
1866 681 At Tydrum, Argyleshire
1867 157 The Pool of a Mountain Stream
         361 Repose
1868 385 The Valley Streamlet
1869 235 A Limpid Pool
from Ferncliff, Mead Vale, Redhill, Surrey
1870 932 His Voice is heard in the Storm
1871 451 Autumnal Morning in the Isle of Skye
1873 172 Tenby Harbour
1874 65 Late Autumn on the Cumberland Fells
         526 Langdale Pikes from Low Water Farm, near Coniston
1875 334 A Fresh Day on the Cornish Coast
1876 905 Gathering the Herd: Isle of Skye
1877 200 A Welsh Stream
1878 264 Welsh Moolands
1880 377 Calm Evening Hour
1883 479 Light in the West after rain
1884 397 A Deer Track
1887 250 Gleams from the Golden West
1888 786 A Forest Dell
1890 582 Thunder Clouds

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Works by This Artist