William Robert Symonds (1851 – 7 November 1934) was an English painter. He specialised in genre scenes, often sentimental, or involving children and animals.[1]

Life

Born in Yoxford, Suffolk,[2] he studied in Antwerp and settled in London in 1881. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1876. His son was the architect and furniture expert Robert Wemyss Symonds.[3]

Works

Symonds painted the originals for some famous prints,[citation needed] the most notable being Heather, painted c. 1909.[citation needed] His paintings hang in the Wallace Collection in London and Christchurch Mansion in Suffolk. Twenty-two of his oil painting portraits are in UK public collections, in particular Colchester and Ipswich Museums.[4]

Paintings

Joseph David Everett portrayed by William R. Symonds

Notes

  1. ^ Caroline Dakers (1999). The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society. Yale University Press. pp. 215–. ISBN 978-0-300-08164-0.
  2. ^ Robin Simon (1987). The portrait in Britain and America: with a biographical dictionary of portrait painters, 1680-1914. Phaidon. p. 234.
  3. ^ "Robert Wemyss Symonds Papers Col". findingaid.winterthur.org. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  4. ^ "William Robert Symonds paintings" (Slide show). Art UK. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  5. ^ "Images". imagecache2.allposters.com. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  6. ^ "Girl with a Silver Fish". ipswich.gov.uk.
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