Benjamin Williams Leader

Style: Pre-Raphaelites;

Place: Worcester

Born: 1831

Death: 1923

Biography:

Benjamin Williams Leader RA (12 March 1831 – 22 March 1923) was an English landscape painter. Leader was born in Worcester as Benjamin Leader Williams, the son, and third child of eleven children, of notable civil engineer Edward Leader Williams (1802–79) and Sarah Whiting (1801–88). His father was described as a "non conformist dissenter" and his ...