Artist
Henry Williams
Henry Williams is a Romanticism painter. 8 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them watercolors.
Henry Williams had a habit of turning people’s faces into tiny mirrors, his watercolors on ivory are so precise you can count the threads in a coat’s weave. He painted Rhode Island’s merchant class in the early 1800s, turning sitters’ stiff collars and gold watch chains into a kind of living ledger. His 1813 watercolor of Gorham L. Freeman, with that single raised eyebrow, is the door: zoom in and you’re suddenly nose-to-nose with a man who’s about to ask you for a loan.
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