🔥 RARE English Tonalist Seascape Oil Painting, Walter Heath Williams 1883

Description: This is a masterful, gorgeous and RARE English Tonalist Seascape Oil Painting on canvas, by important early English painter Walter Heath Williams. This artist is regularly confused with Walter Williams (1834 - 1906,) who was part of the famed English Williams family of painters. Walter Heath Williams has no relation, his works are much rarer, and he is clearly a superior artist. The confusion still exists across Great Britain to this day. This particular work depicts a tumultuous seascape scene off the coast of Cornwall and Devon, with dark and very finely detailed cloud cover above, and a small sailboat on torrential waters in the center of the scene. In the distance, a mountainous coastline can be seen at the right edge of the painting. Signed and dated: "W.H. Williams 1883" in the lower left corner. A faded old label on the verso of the frame reads: "1853," but I think whoever attached that label in the past read the date inaccurately. Approximately 15 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches (including frame.) Actual artwork is approximately 10 x 13 3/4 inches. Very good condition for age. This painting has been professionally re-lined and mounted in a circa 1940's gilded wood frame. Acquired in Los Angeles County, California. This piece was bought as a pair, with another Walter Heath Williams seascape painting, which is also listed. Priced to sell. This artist very seldomly painted seascapes. His most recent seascape painting sold for $6,250 at Freeman's Auctions in 2013. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About the Artist: Walter Heath Williams Walter Heath Williams was a landscape painter who during his life lived in Bath, Topsham and Torquay. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1845-67, the British Institute and Suffolk Street. He painted landscapes, river and coastal scenes mainly in the West Country, especially Devon and Cornwall. Williams was a master of capturing peaceful little spots of nature with their hidden homesteads and winding paths, represented beautifully in this fine example. Walter Heath Williams (birthdate unknown, exhibited 1841 to 1876) was a Victorian landscape artist known for his paintings of fields of haystacks and corn stooks.LIFELittle is known for certain about Walter Heath Williams due to widespread confusion of him with a contemporary artist named Walter Williams (1834-1906) also, who was a member of the well-known Williams family of painters. Because both men were landscape artists, living in England at about the same time, and both signed their works similarly, it is difficult to distinguish one from the other. However, Walter Heath Williams lived in the southwest of England in Bath, Somerset, and in Topsham and Torquay in Devon, whereas his namesake lived nearly his entire life in Surrey, on the south side of London. The consequence of this mistaken identity is that neither the birth nor death dates of Walter Heath Williams are known for sure. However, we do know that he actively exhibited his paintings from 1841 to 1876, which would indicate that he was several years older than his namesake who in 1841 was only 7 years old.WORKWalter Heath Williams specialized in painting farm scenes with rows of haystacks, or stalks of corn tied into stooks, all brightly lit by the midday sun. He tended to use a palette dominated by yellows and soft browns, and he often used stippling to give the effect of flowers in fields, and leaves on trees. He also painted some river and coastal landscapes of Devon and Cornwall. By contrast, his contemporary from Surrey painted streams, marshes and lakes near his home in Surrey and in Wales, often near dense thickets of trees, and with hills in the background. This Walter Williams also tended to use a much darker palette of colors, dominated by greens, and many of his landscapes are weakly lit by the setting sun, or by shafts of sunlight casting shadows through clouds. Despite being the lesser-known of the two, Walter Heath Williams was a prolific painter nonetheless, more so than his namesake, exhibiting a total of 129 paintings at the Royal Academy (34 works), the British Institution (40 works), and the Society of British Artists (55 works), compared to 81 works by the other Walter Williams. Examples of his work also appear in various British museums, but sometimes paintings attributed to Walter Heath Williams are actually those of his namesake.

Price: 3500 USD

Location: Orange, California

End Time: 2024-02-25T20:37:51.000Z

Shipping Cost: 45 USD