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Samuel William Henry Llewellyn [commonly known as William Llewellyn; also known as Sir William Llewellyn] was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England on 1 December 1858. Not much is known about his early years. He studied under Edward Poynter (1836-1919) at the National Art Training School in South Kensington, London in 1879-80, and then at the ateliers of Fernand Cormon, (1845-1924), Jules Joseph Lefebvre, (1836-1911) and Gabriel Ferrier, (1847-1914) in Paris. He subsequently returned to England and settled in London. Llewellyn worked primarily as a landscape and portrait painter. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1884 and, apart from 1892 and 1900, every year until 1941. He also exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New English Art Club, New Gallery, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, and Royal Institute of Oil Painters; Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; Manchester City Art Gallery; Royal West of England Academy in Bristol; and at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin.

Text source: Arts + Architecture Profiles from Art History Research net (AHRnet) https://www.arthistoryresearch.net/


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