William Williams (artist)

For other people named William Williams, see William Williams (disambiguation).

Deborah Hall, 1766, oil on canvas, in the Brooklyn Museum of Art

William Williams (1727 – 27 April 1791)[1] was an English-American painter who wrote a novel, The Journal of Llewellin Penrose, Seaman, considered by many to be the first American novel.

  1. ^ "Colonial Portraits National Portrait Gallery" (PDF). googleusercontent.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2005. Retrieved 3 August 2015.