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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Fishergirls on the shore at dusk, together with another, probably Penmaenmawr, a pair
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
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 Hugh Warren Williams (1862 – 1941)
Born in Liverpool in 1862;his father John was a Liverpool pilot. He attended the Liverpool School of Art. In his early career he worked for Dennis of Scarborough and London (printers), painting scenes for postcards.
He married Cicely Jones ( b.1870) in 1892 who was also an artist and music teacher in Birkenhead. They had 3 children and then moved to Anglesey, Wales in late 1898 and subsequently to the Conway Valley. He became a fellow of the Royal Cambrian Academy in 1907 but was forced to resign in 1918 for refusal to sell his paintings through the Academy.
They had six children in all, two of which became well-know as artists: Nesta (Mrs. Vincent Jones) and Geoffrey Warren Williams. Cicely died on March 6, 1939, and Hugh on September 1, 1941. They are buried with their son Eric at St. Benedicts Churchyard, Guffin, Conway, North Wales.
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