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| Category | Antqiue Collector's Club | |
| SubCategory | ACC Art Reference | |
| Title | Benjamin Williams Leader RA 1831-1923 | |
| Author | Ruth Wood MA | |
| Nature | Art Reference Book | |
| Published | ||
| Available in... | Hardback | |
| No. Pages | 148 | |
| Printed in... | Black / White and Colour | |
| RRP | £45.00 | |
| UK Price | £19.99 | |
| Surface Mail Price | £27.99 | |
| Overseas Price | £29.99 | |
| Blurb | In this pioneering study, the first substantial reassessment of the artist and his paintings to be written since 1901, Ruth Wood covers his personal and artistic life over a long career of more than seventy years. Working within the tradition of British landscape painting and influenced by his lifelong admiration of John Constable, Leader’s extensive coverage of the British countryside and coastal scenes reveals the development of a distinctive and independent style. A master at exploiting the natural effects of water and light, the countryside after rain or the amber luminosity of the late afternoon sun, and these were features of his work which became his trademarks. Ruth Wood uncovers much hitherto unused material and corrects many errors and misconceptions about B.W. Leader and his work. Important sources include the artist’s diaries, records of paintings sold, his letters, British and overseas exhibition catalogues, reviews and other archive material. Extensive and representative colour plates provide outstanding examples of Leader’s paintings spanning his long career and featuring a wide range of locations. The book also contains the first comprehensive listing of engravings, etchings and photogravures produced commercially after the artist’s paintings. The Author Ruth Wood was born in Surrey, only a short walk from B.W. Leader’s home in Burrows Cross. Love of the unspoilt countryside and Leader’s early ‘hunting grounds’ lead to her present residence in Herefordshire near the Welsh border. Her extensive involvement with B.W. Leader’s work, resulting in her being acknowledged as a leading authority on the subject, started from a love of a painting of his owned by her family. Ruth Wood is now an independent art historian and works as a guide at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London where she provides specialist tours of the Museum’s Victorian paintings. She concentrated on Victorian landscape painting while studying for her Master’s Degree and offered B.W. Leader as her special dissertation subject. In the course of researching the artist throughout Britain, the need for an authoritative book on his life and paintings became evident. During his lifetime Benjamin Williams Leader became one of the most prolific and widely acclaimed of Victorian landscape painters. | |
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