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Sidney Richard Percy
Williams (5th son of Edward Williams) was
born in London. Percy began his career when
his elder brothers were already established;
his style owes more to H J Boddington than
Edward Williams. Percy's very early work was
signed 'Sidney Williams' but Sidney
Richard Percy was only 20
when he adopted the use of 'Percy' as the
name under which his paintings were to
achieve a greater popularity than those of
any other member of the Williams family. |
Sidney Richard Percy’s work was much sought after in his own lifetime, his most famous patron being Prince Albert. On his own birthday, 26 August 1854, the Prince Consort gave Percy’s landscape of Llyn Dulyn, North Wales, which had been exhibited at the Royal Academy that year, to Queen Victoria. The painting, which is still in the Royal Collection, is kept in Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. | |||||||
the painting of Sidney Richard Percy is
represented in the Collection of Her Majesty
the Queen, the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath,
the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, the
Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull, the
City Museum, Leeds, the New Walk Museum,
Leicester, the Tate Gallery, London, the
Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham,
the Art Gallery and Museum, Salford, the
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, the Museum
and Art Gallery, Sunderland, the
Wolverhampton Gallery, the York City Art
Gallery, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art,
Canada and the Maharaja Fatesingh Museum,
Baroda. Percy was renowned for the care and thought in the construction of his paintings and no detail escaped his attention in fulfilling these perfect and well-balanced compositions. In this scene we see the full accomplishments of Percy the artist, the technician, and the observer. Few other landscape artists of his time could equal his ability in presenting these classic vistas in such a manner. |
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Views by Percy of the Lake District are relatively few in number with the larger part of his oeuvre being of Welsh river and lake scenes and to a lesser extent of the Scottish Highlands and Lochs. However, these Lakeland panoramas capture the very essence of tranquility and romance which constitute the Victorian concept of the rural idyll. Sidney Richard Percy visited the Lakes on a number of occasions often accompanied by one or more of his brothers, all of whom were also successful landscape painters. These sketching expeditions across the country were popular with the brothers, with the final work being finished in their own studios. This painting would have been completed in Percy’s studio at his home at Hill House, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. | ||||||