Sir Kyffin Williams was born in 1918 in Llangefni, on the Isle of
Anglesey, Wales. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London
between 1941 & 1944 and became the Senior Art Master at Highgate
School from 1944 to 1973. In 1968 he gained a Winston Churchill
Fellowship to record the Welsh in Patagonia.
President of the Royal Cambrian Academy from 1969 to 1976, and again
from 1992, he was elected Royal Academician in 1974 and made an
Honorary Fellow of University College, Swansea (1989), University
College, Bangor (1991) and University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
(1992). In 1991 he received the Medal of the Honourable Society of
Cymmrodorion.
SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS R.A. is accepted as one of the greatest figures
in twentieth-century art in Wales ... best known for his powerful
paintings of the North Wales landscape.
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