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HUGH WILLIAM 'GRECIAN' WILLIAMS (?DEVON 1773-1829 EDINBURGH)
View of Melrose Abbey, Scotland
signed 'H.W. WILLIAMS' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with gum arabic on paper
1434 x 1934 in. (37.5 x 50.3 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 16 October 2003, lot 27 (as 'A Ruined Abbey').
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Although best known for travels in Italy and Greece, Williams spent the early part of his professional life in Edinburgh and was a founding member of Scotland’s first exhibiting society, The Associated Society of Artists, in 1808. Many of his early works take the landscape of Scotland as their subject. Other drawings of Melrose Abbey by Williams are in Newport Museum, Wales, Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery, and the British Museum (1979,1006.93) and are variously dated to 1800 and circa 1804.

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