Biography
Adele Williams was born in Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of John H. Williams.[ Graduating high school at the age of 15, she went to New York in 1886 to study at the Woman's Art School of Cooper Union and the Art Students' League.][ She also studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, where she won the Prix Concours medal.]
Williams worked in oil, watercolor, pastel, and mezzotint, painting landscapes, still lifes, and harbor and street scenes in an Impressionist style. She exhibited work at the Paris Salon[ during her stay in France, and after her return to the United States she showed at the American Watercolor Society, the Art Club of Philadelphia, and elsewhere.][ A number of her portraits are cataloged by the Catalogue of American Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, including a 1902 self-portrait and a 1903 portrait of Ellen Axson Wilson, the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson.][ Her portrait of judge John W. Riely hangs in the Virginia Supreme Court,][ and her portrait of Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury is owned by the University of Virginia.]
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