biography
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| lived:
| (1776–1837)
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| biography:
| Landscape painter, born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, E England, UK. He trained at the Royal Academy (1799). In 1816 he married Maria Bicknell; and in 1828 received an inheritance which enabled him to continue as a painter. Among his best-received works were ‘Haywain’ (1821, National Gallery, London) and ‘The White Horse’ (1819, Frick Collection, New York City), which both gained gold medals in France. Although his work was not especially popular in Britain, he continued to exhibit regularly at the Royal Academy, becoming a member in 1829. His later years were saddened by the death of his wife, and by ill health. He is today considered, along with Turner, as the leading painter of the English countryside. |
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