Margaret Lindsey Williams, 1888-1960, is more famous for her portrait works, which is perhaps why this group-scene had slipped out of memory.<\/p>\n
Growing up in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, she studied at the Cardiff Technical College where she won a gold medal.<\/p>\n
She later attended Pelham School of Art, Kensington, and then the Royal Academy of Arts, where in 1906, she studied under the renowned portraitist John Singer Sargeant.<\/p>\n
Williams was famed for her raucous and fun-filled parties with fellow artists and socialites, in her St John’s Wood home during the early 20th century.<\/p>\n
She is best known as portraitist by royal appointment – painting Queen Elizabeth II on five occasions, and also Princess Anne and a very young King Charles, who is said to have turned up for his sitting wearing overalls and carrying paint brushes, as Williams had inspired him to become an artist too.<\/p>\n
She ventured to the States, where she painted car pioneer Henry Ford, and President Warren Harding, who posed for her in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Margaret Lindsey Williams, 1888-1960, is more famous for her portrait works, which is perhaps why this group-scene had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-227028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}