Adele Williams

Adele Williams (February 24, 1868 – December 18, 1952) was an American artist who was one of the earliest Impressionist painters in Virginia.

Biography Adele Williams was born in Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of Victoria (née Smith) and John H. Williams. Graduating high school at the age of 15, she went to New York in 1886 to study at the Woman's Art School of Cooper Union and the Art Students' League. Afterwards, she studied under Charles Webster Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her portrait of judge John W. Riely hangs in the Virginia Supreme Court, and her portrait of Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury is owned by the University of Virginia.

Williams lived on West Avenue in Richmond. She died on December 18, 1952, in Richmond. She was buried in Hollywood Cemetery.