Personal:
Antony Williams (R.P. P.S. N.E.AC.)

Education:
Farnham College and Portsmouth University.

Solo Exhibitions:
Albemarle Gallery, London 1997
Sala Pares, Barcelona 1999
Messum Gallery, London 2000
Galeria Leandro Navarro, Madrid 2001
Petley Fine Art, London 2004

Awards:
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2007, Runner-Up Prize
Arts Club Prize 2004, 2008
Discerning Eye Award for Still Life1998
Ondaatje Award 1995
Carroll Foundation Award 1991, 1995

Memberships:
New English Art Club (elected 2007
Royal Society of Portrait Painters (elected 1996)
Pastel Society (elected 2007)

Commisions:
HRH The Queen
Amartya Kumar Sen
Sir Alan Budd

Collections:
National Portrait Gallery
Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Queen’s College Oxford
Private Collections in England, Rep. of Ireland and USA

Group Exhibitions:
Threadneedle Figurative Prize, Mall Galleries, London 2008

Pastels Today, Southampton City Art Gallery 2008

Artonomy, Drawing Exhibition, Truro 2007

Lynn Painter – Stainers Prize, London 2007

Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition,
Mall galleries, London 1991, 1992, 1995-2007

Pastel Society, Mall Galleries,
London 1996, 2000,2008

BP Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery,
London 1995, 1998, 2005, 2007

Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Self – Portraits Exhibition,
2 Temple Place, London 2007

Great Britons, Treasures from the National Gallery, London at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Inst., Washington, DC, 2007

The School of London and Their Friends (The Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians) Yale Centre for British Art: New Haven, Connecticut 2000

Hunting Art Prize Exhibition,
Royal College of Art 1998

Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries,
London 1996, 1998, 2002

Royal Academy of Arts, London:
Summer Exhibition 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007

Laing Art Competition Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 1995

Waterman Fine Art, London 1995, 1996

Mercury Gallery, London 1994

New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London 1992, 2007

Royal Society of British Artists 1991

Selected Bibliography:
Oliver Lange, The Artist, March 2008
Brian Sewell, ` How ugly can the faces get? `,
Evening Standard, June 2007
Brian Sewell, Catalogue Introduction,
Petley Fine Art, November 2004
Martin Gayford, Catalogue Introduction,
Messums, November 2000
Laura Gascoigne, ‘Portrait of an inner self`,
Artist& Illustrators, December 2000
Nicholas Usherwood, Galleries, December 2000
Julian Halsby, The Artist, May 1999
Antony J Lester, Antique Collecting, September 1998
Martin Gayford, The Spectator, November 1997
Martin Gayford, `Are our portrait painters all fingers and thumbs? `,
Daily Telegraph, October 1997
David Lee, Art Review, November 1997
Martin Gayford, Catalogue Introduction,
Albemarle Gallery, October 1997
Sarah Boseley, `Queen- Warts and all`,
The Guardian, May 1996
W F Deedes, `Portrait captures Queen’s troubles`,
Daily Telegraph, May 1996
Nigel Reynolds, `Are these really the Queen’s hands? `,
Daily Telegraph, May 1996