Terrick Williams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Terrick Williams

artist, painter

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1860

Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 20-Jul-1936

Profession: painter

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

John Terrick Williams (20 July 1860 – 20 July 1936), better known as Terrick Williams was a British painter who was a member of the Royal Academy.
During his lifetime, Williams became one of the most successful painters in London.Williams was born on 20 July 1860 in Liverpool, England, the son of a businessman.
He was educated at Kings College School, London and was expected by his father to continue in the family business.
However, his determination to become an artist saw him move to Europe and study under Charles Verlat in Antwerp and later at the Académie Julian and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury in Paris. Williams focussed on landscape and marine subjects and painted in oil, pastel and watercolour.
He travelled extensively and his impressionistic, luminous paintings sought the transient effects of light and reflections in Venice, St.
Tropez, Paris, Brittany and St.
Ives. He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1904.
His work was regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1891.
He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (A.R.A.) on 18 November 1924, a Royal Academician (R.A.) on 14 February 1933, and a Senior R.A.
on 1 January 1936.
In 1933 he was also elected President of the RI.
He died on his birthday in 1936 aged 76.
After his death a memorial exhibition was held at the Fine Art Society in 1937.