biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1727–c.91)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Bristol, SW England, UK. A seaman, he arrived in Philadelphia (1747), where he began painting and also constructed a theatre (1759). He wrote an autobiographical novel, The Journal of Llewellyn Penrose, a Seaman (1776), and produced fine portraits, such as ‘Deborah Hall’ (1766). He returned to Bristol (1776) and died in an almshouse. |
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