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| | Artist Biography - Rehs Galleries, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29) |
 | | Benjamin enrolled in the Worcester School of Design, and in 1853, became probationer at the Royal Academy Schools where he studied for a short while. |
 | | Just “like Constable before him, Leader painted best what he knew best and this was for Leader, Worcestershire‘s rivers, its leafy lanes, commons and fields, and its villages and churchesÂ…The scenes were depicted in amber glow of the setting sun or the harsher brightness of early morning after rain.” (Wood, p. |
 | | Benjamin Leader was commercially successful during his lifetime, and had exhibited approximately 216 paintings at the |
| www.rehsgalleries.com /Benjamin_Williams_Leader_Bio.html (1624 words) |
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