Penry Williams

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Place: Glamorgan

Born: 1798

Death: 1885

Biography:

Penry Williams (1802 – 1885) was a Welsh artist who spent most of his life in Rome. He was born in 1802 at Merthyr Tydfil, the son of a house-painter. Sent to London by Sir John Guest and others, he studied in the schools of the Royal Academy under Henry Fuseli, and in 1821 gained a silver medal from the Society of Arts for a "drawing from the anti...

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