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Walter Heath WilliamsWelsh Mountain
River, Nocturne, Landscape Painting, English Oil Painting1869
1869
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About the Item
This atmospheric late 19th-century oil painting by English artist Walter Heath Williams (fl.1841-1876) depicts a moonlit Welsh mountain landscape with a river.
The composition is anchored by a strongly observed foreground of moss-covered rocks, rendered with tactile realism as moonlight strikes their damp surfaces, establishing a sense of physical certainty and proximity.
Beyond this, the landscape begins to dissolve. A river threads through the middle distance, its surface merging almost imperceptibly with low-lying mist. The mountains themselves are partially veiled, their forms softened and obscured by cloud vapour. Rather than clarifying distance, the moonlight withdraws it, allowing the land to recede into suggestion rather than definition.
Williams here brings together two complementary impulses. The foreground speaks in the language of naturalism - observed, and weighted - while the distant landscape moves toward a restrained romanticism, enriched with a sense of mystery. The mist acts as a mediator between earth and sky, erasing firm boundaries and lending the scene a quiet sense of introspection.
The result is a landscape that feels both inhabited and unknowable: a place firmly underfoot, yet resistant to full comprehension. This synthesis of careful observation with atmospheric ambiguity marks the work as one of maturity and places it among the more compelling nocturnal landscapes of Williams’ career.
Signed in lower left. Held in a later gilt frame with scrolling foliage, corner cartouches, and a centred crest ornament.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Overall size: 49” x 31” / 124cm x 78cm
Year of creation: 1869
Provenance: Private collection, UK.
Artist’s auction maximum: £15,400 for ‘Durdle Door/The Path To The Sea (1881)’, Oil on canvas (2), Phillips, Early British And Victorian Paintings, London, 23 Jan 1996 (lot 150).
Our reference: BRV2259
- Creator:Walter Heath Williams (1835 - 1906, British)
- Creation Year:1869
- Dimensions:Height: 31 in (78.74 cm)Width: 49 in (124.46 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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- Condition:Cleaned. Canvas relined. Faint stretcher marks. Later stretcher. Craquelure throughout. The paint layer is stable. Frame in good condition with minor age-related wear.
- Gallery Location:Cheltenham, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2328217517692
Walter Heath Williams
Walter Heath Williams was a landscape painter who during his life lived in Bath, Topsham and Torquay. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1845–67, the British Institute and Suffolk Street. He painted landscapes, river and coastal scenes mainly in the West Country, especially Devon and Cornwall. Williams was a master of capturing peaceful little spots of nature with their hidden homesteads and winding paths.
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