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William Padgett, 1851-1904

Nationality: British
Date of Birth: 1851
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Date of Death: 1904
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Identity:

William Padgett was a landscape painter.

Life:

Padgett lived in London, Hampton and Twickenham. His works include Winter on the Marsh and The Old Mill. From 1881 to 1898 he exhibited in London at venues including the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Grosvenor Gallery, New Gallery, Ridley Art Club, Society of British Artists, a society which elected JW its President in 1886, and International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, a society that formed in 1898 with JW as its President. He also exhibited at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and Manchester City Art Gallery.

Padgett was among those included by William Christian Symons in initial dinner preparations for the Criterion dinner, held on 1 May 1889 to congratulate JW on being made an honorary member of the Royal Academy in Munich (#05635).

Bibliography:

Wood, Christopher, Dictionary of Victorian Painters, Woodbridge, 1971; Wood, Christopher, The Dictionary of Victorian Artists 2nd ed., revised, Woodbridge, 1978; Johnson, J., and A. Gruetzner, Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940, Woodbridge, 1980.