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by Francis Wheatley, W. Annis

$1,750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A handsome pair of Wheatley rural scenes. Wheatley was born and trained in London, and in 1769 was one of the first students admitted to the newly founded Royal Academy. Although he initially practiced as a landscape painter, by the mid 1770s he had become a popular painter of small-scale portraits and informal 'conversation-pieces'. From the 1780s onwards, Wheatley turned increasingly to sentimental domestic scenes that were perfectly attuned to the genteel sensibilities of

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