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Birth
1831 (Worcester, England)
Death
1923 (Surrey, England)
Lived/Active
United Kingdom/England
Often Known For
landscape painting
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Benjamin Williams Leader RA (12 March 1831 – 22 March 1923) was an English landscape painter. Leader was born in Worcester as Benjamin Leader Williams, the son, and first child of eleven children, of notable civil engineer Edward Leader Williams (1802–79) and Sarah Whiting (1801–88). His father was described as a "non conformist dissenter" and his mother was a Quaker – their marriage in an Anglican church resulted in them being disowned by the Society of Friends.
Leader's father was a kee (showing 500 of 5767 characters). |
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