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Christopher David Williams (1873 – 1934) was a Welsh artist. January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
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He was born in Maesteg, Wales, and studied at the Royal College of Art. Maesteg is a Welsh town located at the northernmost end of the Llynfi Valley in the north of the Welsh county borough of Bridgend (Pen-y-Bont ar Ogwr) in the traditional county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg). ...
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The Royal College of Art in South Kensington, London. ...
In 1911, he received a commission from King George V to work on a commemorative painting of the Investiture of Edward, Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle. As well as attending the ceremony, he visited Buckingham Palace, where the Royal Family sat for him in order to complete the detail of the picture. He completed two versions of this painting. King George V King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Emperor of India His Majesty King George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert) (3 June 1865–20 January 1936) was the last British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, changing the name to the...
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The ward of Caernarfon Castle, showing (from left to right) the Black Tower, the Chamberlains Tower, and the Eagle Tower. ...
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He painted the first of three portraits of Lloyd George in the summer of 1911. Lloyd George described him as "one of the most gifted artists Wales has produced". David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM (January 17, 1863–March 26, 1945) was a British statesman and the last Liberal to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ...
He painted three scenes from the Mabinogion. Branwen (1915) can be viewed at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. Blodeuwedd (1930) is at the Newport Museum and Art Gallery. The third painting in the series is Ceridwen (1910). The Mabinogion is a collection of prose stories from medieval Welsh manuscripts. ...
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His paintings in the collection of the National Museum Wales include the "Charge of the Welsh Division at Mametz Wood" and "The Red Dress". Amongst his pictures at the National Library of Wales is "Holidays - Village Girls at Llangrannog". The National Museum Wales (in Welsh: Amgueddfa Cymru), formerly the National Museums and Galleries of Wales, comprises the following museums in Wales: National Museum, Cardiff Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, Cardiff Big Pit National Mining Museum of Wales, Blaenafon National Woollen Museum, Dre-fach Felindre Welsh Slate Museum, Llanberis...
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In 1973 an exhibition was organised on the centenary of his birth at the National Museum of Wales, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Maesteg Town Hall.
In 1994, seventeen of his works were restored and put on permanent display, six in Maesteg Town Hall, and the rest in the Borough Council Civic Offices in Bridgend. Bridgend (Welsh: Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) is a town in the traditional county of Glamorgan and the main town in the county borough of Bridgend in south Wales. ...
His son Ivor Williams was also a Welsh artist. He was the brother-in-law of fellow artist Fred Appleyard
 Plaque at Christopher Williams' birthplace on Commercial Street, Maesteg, Photo by Sarah Rabagliati
Paintings / External links
 Deffroad Cymru, the Awakening of Wales (1911)
Compositions - Branwen The subject is from the Mabinogion. The beautiful Branwen was a sister of the King of Britain and married the King of Ireland at a time then these two countries were at war. She died in Anglesey: 'and Branwen looked towards Ireland and towards the Island of the Mighty, to see if she could descry them. "Alas", said she, "woe is me that I was ever born; two islands have been destroyed because of me!" " The painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1915. In the collection of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.
- The Welsh at Mametz Wood The Charge of the Welsh Division at Mametz Wood, 11 July 1916, part of the Somme offensive. Painted at the request of the Secretary of State for War, David Lloyd George. Christopher Williams visited the scene in November 1916 and later made studies from a soldier supplied for the purpose. In the collection of the National Museum of Wales, to whom it was presented by Sir Archibald Mitchelson, Bart. 1920.
- Blodeuwedd This subject is from the Mabinogion. Gwydion and Math "by charms and illusions" formed a wife for Llew Llaw Gyffes: "so they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of the broom, and the blossoms of the meadowsweet, and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw. And they baptized her, and gave her the name Bodeuwedd". In the collection of the Newport Museum and Art Gallery (gift of the Artists wife, Mrs. Emily Williams, 1937).
- Deffroad Cymru, the Awakening of Wales The painting shows a female nude emerging from the jaws of a sea-dragaon, a kind of Celtic Birth of Venus. Preliminary drawings of this are in the sketchbook that Christopher Williams used at Caernarfon Castle in 1911 when recording the Investiture of the Prince of Wales. This subject was thus a nationalistic allegory that was both contemporary and of special relevance to the artist.
 Portrait of David Lloyd George (1911) In Welsh mythology, Branwen was a daughter of Llyr and Penarddun and has been interpreted as a goddess of love and beauty. ...
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David Lloyd George This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ...
David Lloyd George This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ...
Portraits - Hwfa Môn Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) 1823-1905. The Archdruid is depicted wearing the Gorsedd robes. The portrait was first exhibited at the Royal Cambrian Academy, Conway in 1905. Currently at the National Library of Wales.
- Portrait of David Lloyd George Three-quarter length portait of Lloyd George as Chancellor of the Exchequer, painted in 1911. Currently at Lloyd George Museum.
- Portrait of Richard Lloyd (uncle of David Lloyd George) Richard Lloyd (1834-1917) was a master shoemaker in Criccieth. He brought up his nephew David Lloyd George whose father died in 1864. Painting currently located at the Lloyd George Museum
- Portrait of Sir John Morris-Jones The portrait of John Morris-Jones is in the National Museum of Wales.
- Portrait of Sir Henry Jones The portrait of Sir Henry Jones is in the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Glasgow.
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Landscapes - The Red Dress The artist's wife at Barmouth Island, 1917. Exhibited in Art in Wales, The Early Years, 1900-1956, National Museum of Wales, 1969. In the Collection of the National Museum of Wales (purchased at the Christopher Williams Memorial Exhibition, Palser Gallery, London, 1935), and currently in the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales in Whitehall.
- The Casbah, Tangiers This picture is one of numerous landscapes painted during a three month visit to Spain and Morocco in Spring 1914.
- Holidays - Village Girls at Llangrannog Painting in collection of National Library of Wales.
 Holidays - Village Girls at Llangrannog (1915)
References - Williams, Jeremiah (ed.) (1955). "Christopher Williams RBA : an account of his life and appreciations of his work" (in English). Caernarfon: Delyn Press. ISBN.
- Fraser Jenkins, A. D. (1973). "Christopher Williams Centenary 1873-1973 [catalogue of Exhibitions At] National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 31 March-22 April, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 5 May-2 June, Town Hall, Maesteg, 18 June-7 July" (in English). Cardiff: National Museum of Wales. ISBN 072000036X.
- Hall of Fame - Bridgend County Council
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