€180
Star Lot: Alec Williams RHA (1846-1930) A brilliant Alec Williams RHA (1846-1930) watercolour on paper painting titled 'Achill Moorland'. Features the titular landscape scene. Rendered in soft brushstrokes in earthy tones with teal blue highlights. Titled lower left and signed lower right. Housed in a gilt frame behind glass. With framer's sticker to verso. The artist has a strong auction history with works fetching into the thousands. Some foxing to paper portraying age.
MM: 69 x 52 cm including frame.
Previous in auction on 29/08/24 with Lot no.83
Alec Williams (1846-1930) is known for his talent in landscape and marine painting, but was also a successful taxidermist, with a significant collection of his birds and small mammals held in the Natural History Museum in Dublin. Raised in Drogheda, Co. Louth, he was largely self-taught and received just a few evening lessons in drawing at the RDS (Royal Drawing School).
He began exhibiting with the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1870 and would continue to show work there for a running total of sixty one years. Williams moved permanently to Achill Island in 1899 which would become a significant source of influence for him. The garden he cultivated there has since become a popular public attraction.
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