Frederick Dickinson Williams

American (1829-1915)

American artist Frederick Dickinson Williams was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1829. Williams studied at Harvard University in 1850, and remained in Boston through the 1860s. After his marriage, Williams and his wife, also an artist, traveled to Paris, where they opened a studio and remained until his wife’s death in 1888. Williams then returned to Massachusetts, and continued his art.  

Williams exhibited at the Boston Atheneum, the National Academy of Design from 1867-1896, the Boston Art Club from 1873-1897, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as in the prestigious Paris Salon from 1878-1884. Along with being a prolific landscape painter, Williams taught drawing in the Boston public school system.

During his time in Boston, Williams painted scenes throughout New England, journeying to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the coast of Maine and the hills of Vermont.