Background
Leech was born in Dublin and studied there at the Metropolitan School.
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William Leech
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He later transferred to the Royal Hibernian Academy and studied under Walter Osborne.
Career
In 1903, Leech left Dublin for Paris, where he would fall in love with the French landscape. He exhibited nearly seventy paintings with them in a group exhibition at the Leinster Lecture Hall in August 1907. In December 1909 Leech exhibited with Jack Yeats, Albert Power, Eva Hamilton, William Orpen, Lily Williams, Agricultural Engineer, Constance Gore-Booth and Dermod O’Brien in the first Aonach art exhibition, organised by Sinn Féin as part of the Irish Festival at the Rotunda.
They separated after just two years of marriage.
Leech would travel throughout Europe and eventually settled in England in 1919, with frequent visits to the South of France, to Marseilles, Grasse and Cagnes-sur-Mer.
