HUGH WILLIAM 'GRECIAN' WILLIAMS (?DEVON 1773-1829 EDINBURGH)

Although best known for travels in Italy and Greece, Williams spent the early part of his professional life in Edinburgh and was a founding member of Scotland’s first exhibiting society, The Associated Society of Artists, in 1808. Many of his early works take the landscape of Scotland as their subject. Other drawings of Melrose Abbey by Williams are in Newport Museum, Wales, Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery, and the British Museum (1979,1006.93) and are variously dated to 1800 and circa 1804.