The Road Side. From an original Picture in the Collection of Thos. Lister Parker Esqr

by William Owen

$1,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A beautiful composition expertly rendered by one of the greatest mezzotinters of his time. William Owen was sent in 1786 to London, where he became a pupil of Charles Catton, R.A., the coach-painter. Soon afterwards he attracted the notice of Sir Joshua Reynolds, whose picture of Perdita he had copied, and he was indebted to Reynolds for some valuable advice. He entered the Royal Academy as a student in 1791, and his earliest exhibited works... appeared in the exhibition of

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