Quentin Williams Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1931 -

Quentin Williams is an exhibiting draughtsman and painter in the 19th-20th Centuries Anglo-French realist tradition. He is also a publishing freelance art-historian and theorist with a special interest in 17th Century Dutch painting. A copy of a paper by Quentin Williams and Peter Kemp entitled "The Music Dealer - An Explanation of Distorted Perspective" is available under a Common Creative License here.

Born 1931. Educated Bristol Grammer School - Influences; Frank Beecroft (languages and music). C.P. Hill (Historian, American History Scholar), William Tapp (etching and engraving).

Trained as a draughtsman and painter at West of England College of Art by Paul Feiler, Willis Paige, Robert Hurdle and George Sweet. External tutor - Claude Rogers.

Lecturing influences; Gombrich, Whitkover, Quentin Bell. These scholarly mentors connect Quentin Williams and his student contemporaries, in personal contact sequences, with Sickart, Whistler, Degas, Ingress, David, Mengs, Wineckelmann, Haxman, the Utrecht Caravaggists and on back through the masters of the Italian Rennaissance. A circumstance overlooked, perhaps, by reason of typical English modesty.