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BENJAMIN WILLIAMS LEADER (1831– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 320 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENJAMIN
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WILLIAMS
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LEADER (1831– )  ,
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English painter, the son of E .
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Leader
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Williams, an engineer, received his
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art
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education first at the
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Worcester School of
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Design and later in the
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schools of the Royal
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Academy . He began to exhibit at the Academy in 1854, was elected A.R.A. in 1883 and R.A. in 1898, and became exceedingly popular as a painter of landscape . His subjects are attractive and skilfully composed . He was awarded a
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gold
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medal at the
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Paris
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Exhibition in 1889, and was made a
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knight of the
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Legion of
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Honour . One of his pictures, " The Valley of the Llugwy," is in the
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National
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Gallery of
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British Art . See The
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Life and
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Work of B . W . Leader, R.A., by
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Lewis Lusk, Art
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Journal
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Office (1901) .

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