William Llewellyn (painter)

Sir Samuel Henry William Llewellyn GCVO PRA RBA RI (1 December 1858 – 28 January 1941)[1] was a Welsh painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who served as President of the Royal Academy from 1928 to 1938.

[4][5] He was the son of English-born Welsh parents: Samuel Llewellyn, an engineer, and Alice Jennings.

[2][3] He has 67 paintings in British national collections, including a portrait of industrialist and philanthropist Sir Alexander Grant held by the University of Edinburgh.

His foreign honours included that of Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau in the Netherlands.

A memorial by Sir Edwin Lutyens, who succeeded him as president of the Royal Academy, was erected in his honour in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral in 1942.