portrait painter and professional photographer, apparently worked as a painter in Hobart Town from the late 1830s. Several undated watercolours are known, including a copy of a Sir Joshua Reynolds’ portrait of a child (private collection), two separate portraits of the Waterhouse children (Joseph Brown), and a portrait of a shooter posed with a pile of Australian birds – reputedly John Gould (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery). John Jones has suggested that certain portraits attributed to Thomas Bock may be by Williams, whose style was extremely similar. Later he seems to have worked as a photographer – Davies and Stanbury list one Henry Williams at Hobart in 1859 – then again as a painter. An oil painting, The Butcher’s Shop, Wagga Wagga (1864? Deutscher Fine Art), the colonial workplace of the notorious Tichborne Claimant Arthur Orton (London, 1871-74), is signed 'H. Williams/ '64’.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 1989
