Frederick Dickinson Williams (1829–1915) was an American landscape and genre painter known for his serene, French-inspired scenes. Born in Boston, he studied at Harvard University and taught drawing in Boston public schools from 1850 to 1874. In 1874, he and his wife, Lucia M. Hunt, relocated to Paris, where they studied French art and painted landscapes and genre scenes in their studio until Lucia died in 1888. Williams then returned to Boston, continuing his work with regular trips to the White Mountains of New Hampshire and other wilderness areas, producing a large body of French-inspired landscapes in the manner of Corot and other contemporary French artists. His works were exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum, the National Academy of Design, the Boston Art Club, and the Paris Salon.