Family bank on mini Monet

Kieron Williamson, nine, lived with his parents and sister in a rented flat next to a petrol station in Holt, Norfolk, before using his profits to buy a new £150,000 home in the summer.

The house which was a former 19th century bank in Ludham, Norfolk, will remain in trust until his 18th birthday when the title deeds will be registered in his name.

The Norfolk Broads village of Ludham is especially significant for Kieron as it was the home of his painting hero Edward Seago who died in 1974.

Kieron has become an internationally known art prodigy since he began to paint landscapes on a family holiday in Devon and Cornwall in 2008.

His last major exhibition of 33 paintings sold for £150,000 within half an hour in July last year and he set a new record by selling two paintings for £21,000 each the following month.

Kieron's earnings are due to be boosted further when his latest 12 landscape paintings go on sale next Friday for between £1,250 and £15,595 at the Picturecraft gallery in Holt.

The exhibition is expected to be another instant sell out with buyers pledging to camp overnight outside the gallery to ensure that they get one of his works.

His latest pictures include two views of St Benet's Abbey on the Norfolk Broads the Suleymaniye mosque in Istanbul.

Kieron's parents Keith, 44, and Michelle, 38, have made sure that his earnings have been held in trust for him until he is older.

Former builder Mr Williamson said: "He already has his own house so if he decides he wants to do something completely different when he is older, at least he won't have to worry about a mortgage."

Picturecraft gallery owner Adrian Hill said: "He is unrivalled. There isn't any other child out there who can paint as well in three different media -watercolour, oil and pastel.

"His grasp of the technical elements of working with them really is a wonderful thing."

Kieron's expertise was only recognised when he started art lessons after taking up painting in 2008. His previous artistic talents were limited to colouring in dinosaurs which his parents had drawn for him.

His skill with a brush has amazed art experts who believe his detailed pictures of mainly Norfolk landscapes are way beyond his years.

Kieron's work first came on the market in the summer of 2009 when 19 of his paintings were sold for £14,000 in a sealed bid auction.

Three months later another 16 of his paintings were up snapped for £17,000 in just 14 minutes in his second exhibition at the Picturecraft gallery.

Buyers flew in from as far away as Arizona, New York and South Africa to buy his oils, watercolours and pastels at his third exhibition in July last year.

Some fans camped outside the gallery for up to 48 hours to make sure they did not miss out on one of his paintings priced between £1,825 and £7,995.

Other telephone bidders from Tokyo, Canada and Germany as well as from across the UK ensured the exhibition sold out instantly in 30 minutes.

Kieron later set a new record price for his work by selling two landscape paintings for around £21,000 in a sealed bid auction which attracted interest from around the world.

The pictures had special significance as one was the last he painted when he was aged seven and the other was his first work after his eighth birthday.

The first picture, an oil painting of a Suffolk scene showing rolling fields and a church, was snapped up by a collector in California.

The other was a pastel painting of the desolate shoreline at Winterton, Norfolk, which was bought by a fan from Slovinia.

Many of Kieron's paintings feature iconic locations on the north Norfolk coast such as Morston, Blakeney, Cley, Holkham and Brancaster.