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Up for sale a RARE! "Welsh Painter" William Llewellyn Hand Signed 4X6 Print of The Viscountess Cole.
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Sir Samuel Henry William Llewellyn GCVO PRA RBA RI (1 December 1858 – 28 January 1941)[1] was a Welsh painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who
served as President of the Royal Academy from 1928 to 1938. He was awarded the Albert Medal by
the Royal Society of Arts in
1933. Llewellyn
was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, in 1858. He was the son of English-born Welsh
parents: Samuel Llewellyn, an engineer, and Alice Jennings. He married Marion
Meates, daughter of T. M. Meates. He has 67 paintings in British
national collections, including a portrait of industrialist and
philanthropist Sir Alexander Grant held
by the University of Edinburgh. In
1918, Llewellyn was invested as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)
and advanced to Knight Grand Cross in 1931. He was a trustee of the National
Gallery, a member of the Royal West of England Academy, an honorary member of
the Royal Cambrian, Scottish, and Hibernian Academies, and corresponding member
of the National Academy of Design, New York. His foreign honours included that
of Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau in
the Netherlands. Llewellyn died in 1941. His funeral was held
at Westminster Abbey. A
memorial by Sir Edwin Lutyens, who
succeeded him as president of the Royal Academy, was erected in his honour in
the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral in
1942.