1783 – 1859

English watercolour painter who studied for a while under Varley (1804) and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1805. He lived by teaching and published several books, of which the best-known is the Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Watercolours (1813-14, reprinted 1922). His favourite painting ground was North Wales, but he visited Holland and Belgium in 1826 and France in 1829 and 1832.Show more

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