Excerpt from Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. 16: Friday, November 1, 1912
If a large patronage is an indica tion of success, then Mr. Williams was a very great success. In his native city, Philadelphia, many paintings done by him can be found; a great many in the Pennsylvania Historical Society; in Lancaster, I have found a great many which later I shall men tion; in England, where he was called by an English nobleman, who had seen and admired his work in Phila delphia, he painted several landscape views, among which is Tom Moore’s cottage, now owned and in the pos session of the Misses Holbrook in our town.
Isaac L. Williams, without the L., was the real name of the artist. The L was added because of another man of the same name living in his com munity. To avoid confusion, especial ly in mail and correspondence mate tens, the letter L as a middle initial was used by him. Although not born in Lancaster, Mr. Williams was in many ways closely allied profession ally to the city and county. Being a. Native of Philadelphia, however, he does belong to the State, and, as one of his friends says of him, he stands in the front rank, with the pencil and brush, of our Commonwealth’s artists. Quoting, the same friend says of him: He does not come before us with the glamor and prestige of a century or two behind him to proclaim his mer its and exact his fame, but presents himself to us in propria persona, as one of us known to hundreds still liv ing, who knew the man, saw him at his work, and learned to esteem him as a man while they admired his skill as’it came rapidly into view from his studio.
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