Late artist Fred Williams’ widow Lyn lists historic South Yarra home for $12m

Lyn WIlliams, the widow of iconic Australian painter Fred Williams, is selling her $12m South Yarra home. The South Yarra home of the late artist Fred Williams’ widow Lyn has been listed for sale with a $12m asking price. Acclaimed as one of Australia’s greatest painters, Williams was known for a distinctive style of landscape works with his career taking off after he won the nation’s then richest travelling art scholarship, worth 1000 pounds plus 300 more for travel expenses, in 1963. He was named an Officer of the order of the British Empire in 1976, won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting in 1966 and 1976 and his works have sold for millions of dollars at times. RELATED: Lock up a deal on ‘arresting’ ex-cop shop Vic home Victorian government confirms $1m sale of Sunbury asylum to The Block $12m+ Toorak eco-mansion that powers itself Records show Ms Williams, who has been named a Companion of the Order of Australia, bought the Avoca St home for $2.01m in 1989, about seven years after her husband passed aged 55. “For a house of this size, it has always had an incredible warmth to it,” Ms Williams said. “I’ve been very happy here for almost forty years. The house has been full o...