Lucy Gwendolen Williams
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Lucy Gwendolen Williams, also known as Gwen Williams (27 December 1870 – 11 February 1955) was a British sculptor and painter and a descendant of the Williams family of Highfield Hall in Flintshire.[1][2]
Lucy Gwendolen Williams was born in Lower Bebington, Cheshire to the Reverend Henry Lewis Williams, the vicar of Bleasely and his wife Katherine.[1] During the 1890s she studied at the Wimbledon College of Arts under the tutelage of Alfred Drury, later moving to the Royal College of Art where she was taught by Professor Édouard Lantéri.[1] Although she also painted watercolours and reliefs, her main work was in bronze or marble, consisting of statuettes, busts and children's heads.[2][3] Williams interests included gardening and Theosophy and she was a Fellow of the Brighton and Hove Theosophical Society.[2] She died in Buxton in 1955.[3]
