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TITLE:
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A Relic of the Past
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WORK DATE:
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1897
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CATEGORY:
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Paintings
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MATERIALS:
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Oil on canvas
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MARKINGS:
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Signed and dated 1897
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SIZE:
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Canvas size: 36.5” by 57.5”
Frame size: 44” by 65”
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STYLE:
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Modern
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PRICE*:
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DESCRIPTION:
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Benjamin William Leader was a British landscape painter. His family name was Williams but he decided to adopt his father’s second name in order to distinguish himself from the Williams family of artists to whom he was not related. At an early age he occupied his days by drawing from nature and attended evening classes at the Worcester School of Design. In 1853 he was accepted at the Royal Academy Schools in London and in 1854 one of his landscapes was hung in the Summer Exhibition.
Besides the Royal Academy, his paintings were exhibited continuously at the National Institute, the British Institution, The Birmingham Society of Artists, Liverpool Academy, in Glasgow and in his hometown of Worcester. In 1883 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy and became a Royal Academician in 1898. He exhibited numerous times at the Paris Salon and at the Exposition Universelle, where he became a ‘Chevalier de la Legion d’honneur’ in 1889.
His subjects were usually set in Scotland or the Midlands but he also frequently visited the River Thames and the Welsh hills.
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LITERATURE:
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F. Lewis, Benjamin Williams Leader, R. A.1831 – 1923, Leigh- on-Sea, 1971, p. 46, no. 406;
R. Wood, Benjamin Leader, RA 1831 – 1923; His Life and Paintings, Suffolk, 1998, p. 90, pl. 48.
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