Margaret Lindsay Williams
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Williams with her portrait of US President Warren G. Harding (c.1923)
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18 June 1888 Cardiff |
| Died | 4 June 1960 (aged 71) London |
| Nationality | British |
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| Known for | Portrait painting |
Margaret Lindsay Williams, (18 June 1888 – 4 June 1960) was a Welsh artist who was commissioned to paint portraits of the British royal family, European royalty and American presidents. She was best known as a portrait painter and painted portraits of Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, Princess Margaret and at least five portraits of the present Queen Elizabeth II. She also painted President Warren Harding, Henry Ford and Field Marshal Slim. Although Williams gained considerable recognition and was famous in her lifetime, her work has been neglected since.
Williams was born in Cardiff, the eldest of the two daughters of Samuel A. Williams, a shipbroker of Barry Docks and Martha Margaret Lindsay, who was of Scottish descent. For some years, from the age of 9, she lived in 9 Windsor Road, Barry.
Wiliams studied at Cardiff School of Art, winning a gold medal for art in 1904. In 1905 she enrolled at the Pelham Street School of Painting in Kensington to prepare for entering the Royal Academy in 1906. At the Royal Academy School she won several prizes including a gold medal in 1911 for her work The City of Refuge. At the time she was the youngest artist to win a gold medal at the School and the first from Wales to so. Also in 1911 she established, with funds provided by her father, her own studio at Eaton Terrace in St John's Wood. The following year she won a travel scholarship and, on the advice of John Singer Sargent, spent eighteen months studying in Italy and Holland. In March 1914 Williams held her first solo exhibition, showing some 58 paintings at the New Galleries in Cardiff.
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