landscape painter and customs officer, regularly showed oil paintings at Melbourne exhibitions. As an amateur painter, he entered View on the Yarra, from the Survey Paddock and View from South Yarra in the 1862 Annual Exhibition of Fine Arts, the latter being said to have 'much felicitousness of arrangement [and] an admirable balance of effect’. Williams had an unspecified number of 'Views near Melbourne’ in the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, while Hobson’s Bay beyond Picnic Point and On the Yarra, 1862, Survey Paddock (presumably a repeat) were included in the 1869 Melbourne Public Library Exhibition.
Williams subsequently exhibited with the Victorian Academy of Arts. When he showed a view of St Kilda Park in 1873 featuring the Albert Lagoon and a gigantic tree, the Age critic thought the subject 'might have been made more of’. Giving his address as Customs House, Melbourne, he sent Myrtle Creek, Victoria to the 1879 Sydney International Exhibition.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
