Benjamin Leader Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"Old English Cottages"
Title: Old English Cottages
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 32 x 22 in | Image Size: 28 x 18 in
Edition | Medium: Each print is hand numbered, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and is numbered to match the print. The editions are limited to 1880 copies. |
This Gouttelette print on paper is published with light-fast inks to BS1006 Standard onto acid-free calcium carbonate buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally conscious paper suppliers. This product is exclusive to Rosenstiels.
About the Art: Superior Edition
About the Artist:
Born as Benjamin Williams in 1831, this Victorian landscape painter adopted the name Leader in 1857 to distinguish himself from the unrelated Williams family of painters.
Benjamin Williams Leader is best known for his idealised English landscapes and his talent for painting atmospheric views of the Scottish mountains and the tranquil surroundings of Betws-y-Coed, in North Wales.
From an early pre-Raphaelite style, Leader developed a broader, more naturalistic, technique which became enormously successful and provoked admiration for its literalness and “truth to nature”.
Leader was a pupil at The Royal Academy, where he exhibited between 1857 and 1922 and where he was elected a full Royal Academician in 1898. Besides a number of exhibitions at the Suffolk Street Galleries, the British Institute and the Birmingham Society of Artists, Leader also participated in an exhibition in Paris in 1889, which won him a Gold Medal and the Legion d’Honneur.
Leader died in 1923.
