John Terrick Williams was a British painter who became one of the most successful painters in London.
Williams was born on 20 July in Liverpool, the son of a businessman. He was educated at Kings College School, London and was expected by his father to continue in the family business. However, his determination to become an artist saw him move to Europe and study under Charles Verlat in Antwerp and later at the Academie Julian and with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, William Adolphe Bougouereau and Tony Robert Fleury in Paris.
Williams focused on landscape and marine subjects and painted in oil, pastel and watercolour. He travelled extensively and his impressionistic, luminous paintings sought the transient effects of light and reflections in Venice, St Tropez, Paris, Brittany and St Ives.
His work was regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1891. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (A.R.A.) on 18 November 1924, a Royal Academician (R.A.) on 14 February 1933, and a Senior R.A. on 1 January 1936. In 1933 he was also elected President of the Royal Institute. He died on his birthday in 1936 aged 76. After his death a memorial exhibition was held at the Fine Art Society, London, in 1937.
