Walter Heath Williams

Walter Heath Williams (birthdate unknown, exhibited 1841 to 1876) was a Victorian landscape artist known for his paintings of fields of haystacks and corn stooks.

Because both men were landscape artists, living in England at about the same time, and both signed their works similarly, it is difficult to distinguish one from the other.

Walter Heath Williams specialized in painting farm scenes with rows of haystacks, or stalks of corn tied into stooks, all brightly lit by the midday sun.

He tended to use a palette dominated by yellows and soft browns, and he often used stippling to give the effect of flowers in fields, and leaves on trees.

This Walter Williams also tended to use a much darker palette of colors, dominated by greens, and many of his landscapes are weakly lit by the setting sun, or by shafts of sunlight casting shadows through clouds.