sometimes referred to as the Barnes School. His father and five surviving brothers (listed below) were all noted landscape painters during the Victorian era. Henry was one of three sons of Edward Williams who changed their last names to protect the identity of their art. Edward Williams (father) Edward Charles Williams George Augustus Williams Arthur Gilbert Sidney Richard Percy Alfred Walter Williams Art Boddington developed his own style, characterised by a remarkable ability to depict the foliage of backlit trees. Jan Reynolds (1975) observed that one of his "most characteristic effects is the appearance of a warm day, with the sun just out of the picture, giving a filmy, hazy atmosphere to the landscape, with deep blue shadows adding greater value to the opposing tone of yellow. The distant mountains are melting in vapory sunlight. The artist is a master of this effect..." Like many Victorian painters, he worked on a grand scale. The Fine Arts Quarterly Review (Vol. 3, 1865) noted that he "painted pictures not only large, but sometimes grand. His landscapes of mountains, lake and river had scenic breadth and power..." His paintings mostly depict peaceful English country scenes. He was a very rapid sketcher. Notes References External links The English Countryside (includes biography and works of H.J. Boddington) Paintings by Henry John Boddington at Art Renewal Center Museum Paintings by Henry John Boddington at Art UK Paintings by Henry John Boddington at Wikigallery Victorian Landscape Art Artwork by Henry John Boddington 1811 births 1865 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters Landscape artists Members of the Royal Society of British Artists 19th-century English male artists Burials at Barnes Cemetery