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Girl in a Straw Hat – Claire Vicole (1820-75) I'd just re-read Middlemarch (which, incidentally has a watercolour vignette by Birket Foster as its frontispiece) when... |
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Lawn Cottage - The Artist's Home Watercolour -
John Strickland Goodall was a well-known illustrator and watercolourist, whose career spanned virtually the whole of the last century...John Strickland Goodall (1908-1996) |
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Summer’s Day on the Old Racecourse by Fulleylove
The painter of this meticulous little picture is John Fulleylove, who
specialised in recording minute scenic detail, usually of buildings and
street scenes, with the merest of brushstrokes. Although he specialised
in London... |
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Gypsies
by Vincent Lines
The gypsy family affectionately depicted here are almost certainly camped
in one of the hop-picking areas of Kent, during the autumn of 1941... |
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Fishing Boats, Reykjavik, Iceland, 1943 -
Thomas Hennell was flown out to Iceland in May 1943 as an official war artist, to replace Eric Ravilious...Thomas Hennell, (1903-1946) |
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Potato
Harvest at Ridley, Thomas Hennell
Hennell had been commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee to
record this vitally important harvest at a time when the Nation's self
sufficiency was of the utmost importance... |
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Hay
Rick with waggon, figures and a dog, Thomas Hennell
Thomas Hennell was a romantic enthusiast for Britain's agricultural past,
as well as an artist, and wrote a number of books on the subject of traditional
farming practices... |
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Breezy
Day, Ridley, Kent, Thomas Hennell (verso of Hay Rick above)
The scene depicted here is almost certainly the open plateau at Ridley
in Kent, close to Orchard Cottage, where Hennell lived between 1935-43.. |
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Farmyard,
Isle of Wight 1944
We have traced this typical Hennell plein air watercolour of
a farmyard to the outskirts of the town of Sandown on the Isle of Wight |
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