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Williams & Everett (est.1855) in Boston, Massachusetts, was an art dealership run by Henry Dudley Williams and William Everett. The firm sold original artworks by American and European artists, as well as "photographs and carbon-pictures of eminent persons, noted places, and famous paintings."〔Science (Cambridge, Mass.) v.1, no.6, March 16, 1883.〕 It also continued the mirror and picture frame business that had been established earlier by the Doggett brothers.〔"John Doggett retired from the firm in 1845, and his brother Samuel in 1854, and the business was reorganized, the manufacture of mirror and picture frames being continued under the name of Williams & Everett, who added the branch of paintings, etc.;" cf. William Richard Cutter, ed. Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and eastern Massachusetts, Volume 3. NY: Lewis historical publishing company, 1908〕 ==History== Gallery founder Dudley Williams had worked for John Doggett & Co., 1816-1855. "John Doggett retired from the firm in 1845, and his brother Samuel in 1854, and the business was reorganized, the manufacture of mirror and picture frames being continued under the name of Williams & Everett, who added the branch of paintings, etc.."〔William Richard Cutter, ed. Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and eastern Massachusetts, Volume 3. NY: Lewis historical publishing company, 1908〕〔Because Doggett's framing/mirror business had been established in 1810, Williams & Everett advertised the 1810 as their year of establishment. Cf. King's hand-book of Boston. 1889; p.350〕 Williams and his new business partner, William Everett, were related by marriage; Williams had married Everett's sister Isabel in 1832.〔Everett. 1902; p.183〕 Before creating a formal partnership, Williams and Everett each sold mirrors, picture frames and carpets from the same address on Washington Street.〔Dudley Williams, "looking-glasses, 234 Washington" cf. Boston Directory, 1852〕〔Dudley Williams, "carpets, 234 Washington St."; and William Everett, "lookingglasses and picture frames, 234 Washington"; cf. Boston Directory. 1857, 1858〕 The gallery was located at the corner of Bedford and Washington Street until 1885.〔Boston Almanac. 1860, 1875〕〔Boston Directory. 1861〕 The gallery moved in 1885 from downtown to Back Bay, where it remained until the business closed around 1907.〔Boston almanac and business directory. 1891〕〔"190 Boylston and 30 Park Square;" cf. Boston almanac and business directory. 1894〕〔Clark's Boston blue book. 1908〕 "Williams & Everett's Galleries, at No. 79 Boylston Street, were ... designed and built expressly as a repository of the Fine Arts. ... The architectural adornment of the interior is of the English Renaissance, with carved wood and heavy beams in sight. On one side is a carved chimney piece, extending to the ceiling, and near this is a grand staircase leading to a series of galleries, extending from the carved wood coigne which looks down into the store, to the balcony overlooking Park Square. The wainscoting of dark wood is surmounted with pomegranate hangings, and the ceiling is effectively decorated in plain and harmonious tints. Incandescent lights placed in the ceiling in a novel and original manner, are used throughout the store and galleries."〔King's hand-book of Boston. 1889; p.350〕 European artists exhibited included Rosa Bonheur〔American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1〕 and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.〔Special exhibition of important foreign paintings : including work by Bouguereau, Baugniet, Corot, Daubigny, Fromentin, Jacquand, Lambinet, Roybet, and other prominent artists. Boston: Williams & Everett's Gallery, 19th century.〕 Williams & Everett also exhibited and sold works by American artists such as: * Henry Bacon〔Fine arts: The Williams & Everett Collection. New York Times, February 12, 1873〕 * Albert Bierstadt〔 * Bricher〔 * George L. Brown〔Art in Boston: Pictures by Inness, Brown and Others. The Aldine, Vol. 8, No. 9 (1877)〕 * Mary Cassatt〔Williams & Everett ... represented Mary Cassatt early in her career;" cf. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston )〕 * Frederic Edwin Church〔 * George Curtis〔Exhibition of paintings, engravings, drawings aquarelles and works of household art, in the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition. 1875.〕 * Sophia Towne Darrah〔Catalogue of original paintings and water-colors by Mrs. S.T. Darrah : on view in William & Everett's Gallery, 508 Washington Street Boston. Boston : Frank Wood, printer, 1881.〕 * H. Anthony Dyer〔"Exhibition of water colors by H. Anthony Dyer." Boston : Williams & Everett, 1904.〕 * George Fuller〔Paintings by George Fuller, May 9, 1884. (Williams & Everett, 1884 ); cf. (Archives of American Art )〕 * Régis François Gignoux〔 * Childe Hassam〔Grand Prix Day, 1887, by Childe Hassam. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston )〕 * Thomas H. Hinckley〔Cincinnati Industrial Exposition. 1875.〕 * George Hitchcock〔Exhibition of landscapes by Robert W. Van Boskerck of New York, and a series of pastels and water colors by George Hitchcock of Paris ... : March 16–30, 1894. Boston: Williams & Everett's Gallery, 1894〕 * George Inness〔〔"Williams & Everett were Boston dealers who sent George Inness to Europe in 1870;" cf. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston )〕 * Ernest Longfellow〔Ernest W. Longfellow (b. 1845). "His 'John and Priscilla,' exhibited at Williams & Everett's, Boston, in 1875, attracted much attention. It represents the Puritan youths strolling on the bench, the water rolling its breakers nearly to their feet, and the sun setting brilliantly in the background." Cf. Clara Erskine Clement and Laurence Hutton. Artists of the nineteenth century and their works: A handbook containing two thousand and fifty biographical sketches, Volume 2. Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1879. (Google books )〕 * John Low〔 * A.S. Patterson〔Miss A.S. Patterson and Miss Sarah S. Perkins take pleasure in announcing an exhibition of their pictures : in the gallery of Williams & Everett, 190 Boylston Street, January 1 to January 8, 1900. Boston : Frank Wood, printer, 1899.〕 * Sarah S. Perkins〔Miss A.S. Patterson and Miss Sarah S. Perkins take pleasure in announcing an exhibition of their pictures: in the gallery of Williams & Everett, 190 Boylston Street, January 1 to January 8, 1900. Boston : Frank Wood, printer, 1899.〕 * John E.C. Peterson〔 * William Henry Powell〔 * W.T. Richards〔 * Caroline Hunt Rimmer〔"Caroline Hunt Rimmer is having an exhibit of her vases at Williams & Everett's. Miss Rimmer stands alone in her special line of work, and her vases are very dainty. They are to be reproduced in bronze by the Bonnard Company, I am told." Cf. Dora M. Morrell. Boston Notes. Brush and Pencil, Vol. 4, No. 2 (May, 1899)〕 * Theodore Robinson〔Paintings in Oil and Pastel by Theodore Robinson and Theodore Wendel, April 1–14, 1892. (Williams & Everett, 1892 ); cf. (Archives of American Art )〕 * John Rogers〔12th exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. Boston: 1874.〕 * Henry Sandham〔Catalogue of oil paintings and water colors by Henry Sandham: on view in the gallery of Williams & Everett, Boston. 19th century.〕 * William Sartain〔Paintings and water-colors by William Sartain: the honor of your company is respectfully requested at a private view in Williams & Everett's gallery. Boston : 1884〕 * Frank Hill Smith〔Atlantic Monthly, April 1877 (Google books )〕 * Tait〔 * Robert W. Van Boskerck〔 * Elihu Vedder〔The Wellesley Magazine. Feb. 10, 1900〕 * Theodore Wendel〔 * Moses Wight〔 "In the store are departments for etchings, engravings, water colors and photographs. If you desire to purchase a fine impression, a rare proof, a unique etching, a carbon reproduction of a favorite picture by one of the old masters, or a representative work of the modern schools, if you want instructive photographs of ancient sculptures or classic ruins, you are sure to find them in the ample folios of this establishment."〔 The firm published its own pictorial reproductions of selected artworks, such as a chromolithograph of the character "Dotty Dimple" (after Elizabeth Murray),〔Dotty Dimple: After original picture by Mrs. Elizabeth Murray. Boston: Published by Williams & Everett, 219 Washington Street, Boston, 1869〕 and photographic portraits of H.W. Longfellow and his family. "Williams & Everett, recognizing the deficiency in the subjects of photographs brought to America, have made this particular branch a specialty. ... One portion of their establishment is entirely devoted to this class of art, and here on the walls are hung large and magnificent carbons of the rarest subjects. Below these pictures of Michael Angelo, frescoes from the Sistine Chapel, his sculptures from the church of San Lorenzo, and the old frescoes of Fra Angelico and Giotto in the convent of San Marco at Florence, are ranged in large wooden cases separately the works of the famous artists, some thousand in number. Here is a whole section devoted to Bellini, another to Cimabue, and another to Velasquez. Their pictures from Spain, Italy, and Germany, France and England, are collected here, and, sitting at the table at which visitors are freely allowed to examine these treasures, a feeling of embarras de richesse comes over one."〔Appleton's Journal, Nov.6, 1875〕 Clients included Thomas Thompson.〔A Picture Miser. His Gallery the Finest in the Country---His Eccentricities---He loved his pictures as his life, and kept them jealously to himself. Philadelphia Inquirer; Date: 12-11-1869〕 Among the many walk-in visitors to the gallery was Sophia Peabody Hawthorne in 1863: "5 June, Thursday. Finest day - cool. We went out after breakfast with Annie. We visited Studio gallery. ... Then to Williams & Everett's - Then we shopped." "29 September, Monday. I went to town at noon. Went to see Tilton's pictures at Williams & Everetts."〔Thomas Woodson, James A. Rubino, Jamie Barlowe Kayes. With Hawthorne in Wartime Concord: Sophia Hawthorne's 1862 Diary. Studies in the American Renaissance, (1988)〕 The firm consisted of its founders, Henry Dudley Williams (1809-1888)〔"Dudley Williams, born 1809; died Mar. 6, 1888, at Roxbury; he was educated in the public schools, and was apprenticed to John Doggett, a picture dealer in Boston, whom he succeeded in business." He married Isabel Everett (1811-1886) in 1832. "He soon, with his wife's brother, William, formed the well known firm of Williams & Everett, dealers in pictures and engravings for three generations. Their store became, and continued, headquarters for artists and lovers of art." Children: Henry Dudley Williams (b. 1833); Mary Isabel; Ellen Louise; Stephen Joseph (1844-1884); George Everett (1846-1847); Hetty Brown (b. 1848). Cf. Edward Franklin Everett. Descendants of Richard Everett of Dedham, Mass. T. R. Marvin & Son printers, 1902; p.183. (Google books )〕 his brother-in-law William Everett (1821-1899),〔"William Everett ... born Jan. 26, 1821, at Roxbury, Mass.; died Aug. 24, 1899; married June 4, 1846, Rachel Ford, daughter of Charles and Lois (Pierce) Ford, born Feb. 25, 1823. He was a resident of Dorchester, and for many years in partnership with his brother in law in the firm of Williams & Everett." Children: Florence; Grace Adelaide; William B. Everett (b. 1856). Cf. Everett. 1902; p.183〕 and their sons, Henry Dudley Williams (1833-1907)〔"Henry Dudley Williams, of the firm of Williams & Everett, of Boston, Mass. ... A graduate of Brown University in the class of 1855." Cf. Annual report of the president to the Corporation of Brown University, 1896〕〔New England historical and genealogical register. April, 1907; p.218〕 and William B. Everett (1856-1907)〔W.B. Everett died October 30, 1907; cf. "Known in art circles." Duluth News Tribune (Minnesota); Date: 10-31-1907〕 In 1901, "Williams & Everett ... made an assignment. The liabilities are said to be between $40,000 and $50,000, and the assets consist principally if a large stock of prints, engravings and paintings of high quality. The firm, since the death of Mr. Everett several years ago, has consisted of Henry D. Williams. It is the hope of the firm and assignee that the affairs can be arranged without interruption of business and in such a manner as to re-establish the business on a firm foundation."〔Publishers Weekly, Nov. 2, 1901〕 The firm seems to have ceased with the death of H.D. Williams in 1907. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Williams & Everett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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