Exeter landscape and animal painter. Member of the
well-known West Country family of landscape painters
and father of Frederick John. He
originally trained as a stone mason and was self-taught as an artist. Copied a great deal of Landseer’s
work including The Kill at an Otter Hunt, dated 1855,
and made a considerable amount of money by producing copies of Landseer’s famous painting, The
Monarch of the GlenM. Painted The Poltimore Hunt,
dedicated to Lord Poltimore, a subject which was later
engraved by J. Harris and pub. by William Clifford,
Exeter, c.1865 and The End of a Day’s Shoot.... — Mary Ann Wingfield, p.319
Pycroft, George.
Art in Devonshire: with the biographies of artists born in that county. Exeter: Henry S. Eland, 1883. Internet Archive, from a copy in the Getty Research Institute. Web. 15 April 2024. Wingfield, Mary Ann. A Dictionary of Sporting Artists: 1650-1990. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1992. Created 20 April 2024
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