€40
A wonderful original Morris Meredith Williams (Welsh, b.1881 - d.1973) oil on board painting featuring a traditional West of Ireland landscape scene rendered in thick impasto paint and an atmospheric palette of grey blues and greens. Signed bottom right and housed in an ornate gilt frame. Combridge Fine Arts framer sticker to verso. Williams has a good auction history with works fetching into the high hundreds.
MM:76 x 55 cm including frame.
In 1905, Morris Meredith Williams was appointed Art Master at Fettes College in Edinburgh. He lived in Edinburgh before moving to Devon in 1929, where he stayed until his death. Almost every year between 1906 and 1937 Williams exhibited one or more paintings at the Royal Scottish Academy, his work consisting mainly of landscape and genre-painting. During the 1920s he also exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. In addition to painting, Williams illustrated books and designed church windows. In Edinburgh, he is best known for his drawings of naval and military figures for the frieze of First World War soldiers in the Scottish National War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle. The frieze itself was modelled by his wife, the sculptor (Gertrude) Alice Meredith Williams, whom he married in 1906.
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