本杰明·威廉姆斯·里德（Benjamin Williams Leader）1831年出生于伍斯特，是一位英国的风景画家，是著名土木工程师爱德华·利德·威廉姆斯(1802-1879)和萨拉·惠廷(1801-1888)11个孩子中的第三个孩子本杰明·利德·威廉姆斯的儿子。在1854年,23岁的他被录取为伦敦皇家艺术学院的学生,随后他的作品每年夏天都会出现在的学院展览中。1857 - 1858年，他在波特兰广场国立美术学院展出了一些早期作品。这些早期作品的灵感来自伍斯特周围的乡村。他早期作品受到拉斐尔前派的影响，非常注重细节，强调从自然中酝酿灵感进行绘画。在他的晚年时光，他选择了一种更放松更印象派的风格，而不是完全模仿自然。他的画作被富有的买家大量购买，在他第一次拍卖画作后的的短短几年内，就取得了令人羡慕的商业成就。他的大部分优秀作品现在都被私人画廊收藏，很少公开展示。

他的作品对细节的把控及其严谨，通过对亮部与暗部的巧妙编排来实现对细节的把控，从而表现出纵深度并且展现出辉煌饱满的效果。他的色彩也通常是纯粹和真实的还原自然。目前，他的作品在伦敦的维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆、泰特美术馆、哈德斯菲尔德美术馆、伯明翰博物馆和美术馆以及伍斯特(目前英国最大的Leader作品展)、曼彻斯特等地公开展出。美国圣莫尼卡的剑桥画廊也收藏了他的几件作品，他的作品还被收录在威斯康辛州麦迪逊市的查森艺术博物馆(Chazen Museum of Art)的藏品中。同时，他的许多作品也被一些私人收藏家所持有。

《清凉河边道》画中河边风景清新自然，作者以轻松随意的姿态来涂绘，呈现出如画中画的自然美感。画作构图和谐，配色清新令人舒适，图中植物与云彩的色彩运用巧妙又和谐，作者在将美好风景复刻下来的同时，为其注入了自身的情感，表现出作者对自然之美的细腻感受，令画面流露出真实和纯粹的诗意。

Benjamin Williams Leader (Benjamin Williams Leader) was born in Worcester. He was an English landscape painter and the son of Benjamin lead-williams, the third child of famous civil engineer Edward lead-williams (1802-79) and Sarah whiting (1801-88). In 1854, at the age of 23, he was admitted to the royal college of art in London. He also exhibited some of his early works at the national academy of fine arts in Portland square from 1857 to 1858.These early works were inspired by the countryside around Worcester, "so picturesque are the cottages, cottages, alleys, hedgerows and churches". His early work was influenced by the pre-raphaelites, with an attention to detail and an emphasis on painting from nature. In his later years, he adopted a more relaxed style, more impressionistic, rather than completely imitating nature. His paintings proved to be in great demand by wealthy buyers, and within a few years of his first auction he had achieved enviable commercial success. Most of his best work is now in private galleries and has never been shown in public. His style is a middle ground between too much detail and too much elaboration, on the other hand, quick execution. His work is finished enough to satisfy those who seek to be careful, but this quality is not reduced to contrived trifles, but shows the breadth of bearing and brilliant effect through clever arrangement of light and shade. His colors are also usually pure and true to nature. His work is now on public display at the Victoria and Albert museum in London, the Tate, the huddersfield gallery, the Birmingham museum and gallery, Worcester (currently the largest UK Leader exhibition) and Manchester. Several of his works are in the Cambridge gallery in Santa monica, and are part of the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, Wisconsin. Many are also held by private collectors.