Wood-Cock Shooting

by After Julius Caesar Ibbetson

$2,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A wonderful, rustic English shooting scene. Julius Cæsar Ibbetson was apprenticed to John Fletcher, a ship-painter at Hull. Ibbetson attracted public attention by his designs for ship decoration and by some scenery painted for the Hull Theatre, and his success encouraged him to seek his fortune in London in 1777. He was forced at first to work for Mr. Clarke, a picture dealer in Leicester Fields, but was able at the same time to acquire a thorough acquaintance with the

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