‘A Welsh Hillside Path’ by Benjamin Williams Leader (1831-1923). The painting is signed and dated by the artist and was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1874.

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Benjamin Williams Leader entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1856 and exhibited his first painting at the Summer Exhibition the following year. Leader would go on to become one of the most celebrated landscape artists of the Victorian age and at the height of his fame his landscapes commanded the highest prices of any British artist. He exhibited at the Royal Academy every year from 1857 to 1922, an unbroken 65 continuous years, which still stands as a record today.

Benjamin Williams Leader was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1883, and an Academician in 1898. He was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Salon and the Légion d'Honneur in 1889. Today, landscapes by Leader can be seen in Birmingham and Manchester Art Galleries, and the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Britain in London.

Dimensions: (framed) 124cm x 170cm (48¾” x 67”)

Dimensions: (canvas only) 106½cm x 152¾cm (42” x 60”)

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Provenance: 1874: Royal Academy Exhibition. Private UK collection.

Presentation: Bespoke gold metal leaf frame. All of the new frames we commission are especially made for us to order by one of the UK’s leading period frame makers.