Benjamin Williams Leader is one of the most famous British landscape painters of the 19th and 20th centuries. Born on 12 March 1831 in Worcester, he spent many years of his life in Worcestershire, Wales, Surrey and Scotland. These landscapes were his main motifs. By then standards, he became quite old at 92.
This is due to the fact that his father was quite wealthy as the owner of an engineering office and that he was already selling successfully during his studies. After graduating from the Royal Grammar School Worcester he therefore worked as a draughtsman for his father. His hobby was painting. Therefore he made many trips to the river Severn. In the evening he graduated from the Worcester School of Design. It is well documented that Leader attended the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1854, where he constantly took courses in landscape painting during his free time. After one year he was allowed by the Academy to exhibit his painting "Cottage Children blowing bubbles". An American art lover even paid the considerable sum of £50 for it at that time. After that he always exhibited at the Academy's exhibitions. He never graduated from the Academy, but always sold paintings. So he sold directly to private art collectors through the art trade. These paintings were never exhibited. In 1898 he became a full member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Due to his considerable success already during his lifetime, his most famous works "In the Evening there shall be light" and "February Fill Dyke" achieved sensational prices. Benjamin Williams Leader painted mainly in oil. These were landscape paintings with a lot of perspective and details partly on canvas, partly on cardboard, colour lithographs or engravings. His most famous engraving is that of "Tintern Abbey by Moonlight". Some of them bear witness to a stay in Switzerland. His favourite motifs are river landscapes.
Leader captured the landscapes of his homeland with his works. He brought them closer to those who had come to know and love them as visitors, and created memories for those whose home it was. His paintings are expressive, some of them colorful, but he was not at all interested in portraiture. People and animals are only sparsely represented in his works and when they are, they show almost no details. Due to his good financial basis he could fully dedicate himself to his painting. Compared to other painters of his time, such as Lynch or Stokes, he almost never travelled abroad, but spent most of his time in Great Britain. The fact that he had sold many works before anyone but himself and his art dealers had seen them makes it always likely to find a still unknown "leader". Those paintings that are known are offered at very good prices in the most famous auction houses of the world.
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.jpg "In the Evening it Shall be Light by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "The Friendly Robin by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "The Old Blacksmiths Shop, Great Malvern, 1871 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Worcester Cathedral, 1897 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "February Fill Dyke by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "February Fill Dyke by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Welsh Landscape by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Landscape with young shepherd boy by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Quiet Valley among the Welsh Hills, 1860 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "An Old Mill near Worcester, 1880 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1173018).jpg "An Autumn Evening After Rain by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1172682).jpg "An Island on the Llugwy Just Below Capel Curig, North Wales by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "The Valley of the Llugwy, 1883, c1900 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Unterseen, Interlaken: Autumn in Switzerland by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Tintern Abbey, Wales, 1889 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "On the Lledr by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1118513).jpg "The River Running into Derwentwater by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Shere Church, Surrey by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "River Scene, Streatley on the Thames by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Clive Lock, on the Thames, 1873 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "On the Llygwy, North Wales by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "On the River Llugwy, Below Capel Curig by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Afternoon on the Thames, 1903 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Canal under Construction, possibly the Bude Canal, c.1840 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "November by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1426828).jpg "Sand dunes on the Conwy by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Reading on the Terrace Steps by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "The Cottage by the River by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "The Silent Evening Hour by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1122869).jpg "The Sheum from Rosenlaui by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Welsh River Scene by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "A Still Pool on the River Conway, Churchpool, Below Bettwys-y-Coed by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Igtham Moat, Kent, c.1868 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "On the Hills above Betws-y-Coed, Wales by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1109530).jpg "A River in North Wales by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "A View of Frog Lane by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "After the Storm, 1910 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Punting Day by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Unknown Image by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Summertime near Dolgelly, North Wales by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "View from Zugspitze from Garmisch-Partenkirchen by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Goring on Thames by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "On the River Conway by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Sunset After Rain by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Landscape with a young woman by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "On the Llugwy, North Wales by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Near Harlech, North Wales by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Evening at Streatley, Bedfordshire by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1173021).jpg "On the River Conway, North Wales by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "The Stream in Summer Time by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "When Sun is Set by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Study of a Cottage Interior by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "On the Teme at Worcester, 1855 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "A Welsh Sunset, from magazine or book source unknown by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Amberley on the River Arun by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Evening on the Severn, 1897 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "An English Hayfield by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "A Bright Afternoon, North Wales by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "The Banks of the River by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "By Mead and Stream, 1893 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "The Carnarvonshire Coast by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "When Sun is Set: A Worcestershire Village by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "An English Hayfield by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "On the Lledr River by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1497490).jpg "On the Llugwy below Capel Curig by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Worcestershire Morning Clearing after Rain, 1897 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Where Peaceful Waters Glide by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "An English Hayfield, 1878 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "On the Llugwy River by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1172453).jpg "Fishing by the Mill by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Sunset by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Smooth Severn Stream, 1886 by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Stratford-on-Avon Church and Lock by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "A Fine Afternoon in North Wales by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Moel Siabod in the Valley of the Lledr by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "On the Llugwy Below Capel Curig by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Evening at Llandulas, North Wales by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Stokesay Castle, Shropshire by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "A View of Streatley by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Tintern Abbey - Moonlight on the Wye by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "With Verdure Clad by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "A River Landscape with a Fisherman Making Eel Traps by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "The Making of Eastham Lock on the Manchester Ship Canal by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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.jpg "Harvest Time - On the Banks of the Llugwy by Benjamin Williams Leader")
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