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The earlier English water-colour painters (1897)

Monkhouse, W. Cosmo (William Cosmo), 1840-1901 · London, Seeley · leaf 24

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ir part; but perhaps the artist who couldmost justly challenge Paul Sandbys claim to thetitle of the father of the English school of water-colours in the production of faithful landscape,is William Tavener or Taverner (1703-1772),an amateur, not unknown to Dr. Smollett, whopraises his drawings in… … N _ The Sandbys. 5 pally in body colours, imitating the ItalianMasters, and there is a drawing of this characterin the South Kensington Museum, and otherselsewhere; but in the late Dr. Percys collectionwas a view from Richmond Hill executed bythis artist in transparent colours, an extensiveand…

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