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Proud & Humble son of East Bergholt, SUFFOLK. Painter and ROMANTIC. Painting is but another word for Feeling.


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Good Day! Henley from the Wargrave Road by Jan Siberechts, 1698 (Henley-on-Thames River & Rowing Museum) Zoom in for detail

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The Allotments by Lucien Pissarro 1917 Oil on Canvas (Ulster Museum)

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Gardens at Hammersmith Allotments by Francis Dodd 1929 Oil on Canvas (Garden Museum)

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Landscape in inclement weather by Joachim Frich 1855 Oil on Canvas (National Museum of Norway, Oslo)

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Good Day! Newbury Port Marshes: The Approaching Storm by Martin Johnson Heade 1871 Oil on Canvas (Terra Foundation for American Art)

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Evening Landscape by Martin Greenland 2019 Oil on Paper (Private Collection)

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Greenhouse and Garden by Stanley Spencer 1937 Oil on Canvas (Ferens Art Gallery, Hull)

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Interior with Madame Hessel and Her Dog Édouard Vuillard 1910 Oil on Cardboard on Panel (Bristol Museum & Art Gallery)

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Good Day! La belle dame sans merci by Frank Bernard Dicksee, Exhibited 1902 Oil on Canvas (Bristol Museum & Art Gallery) The subject of this painting is taken from Keats’ poem of 1819.

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Stoke Cottage, near Bristol by Samuel Jackson 1826 Oil on Mahogany Panel (Bristol Museum & Art Gallery)

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The Destruction of Pharaoh's Host by Samuel Colman c. 1830 Oil on Canvas (Bristol Museum & Art Gallery)

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Good Day! View of the Avon from Durdham Down by James Baker Pyne 1829 Oil on Canvas (Bristol Museum & Art Gallery)

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I'm sure. And long may it be there.

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Good Day! The Hay Wain is currently being exhibited in "Truth to Nature" at @bristolmuseum . There is always more to see close up. And a wonderful reason as to why it is there.

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I think I need to retire to my bed. Thank you for all the support.
Sleep well and Good night.
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Putney
Thames at Putney, London by William Parrott 1840
Oil on Canvas
(BAC Moving Museum/ Wandsworth Collection)
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Colchester
Colchester from Sheepen Hill by Lucien Pissarro 1911
Oil on Canvas
(Colchester and Ipswich Museum)
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Leeds
Reflections on the Aire - on Strike by John Atkinson Grimshaw in 1879
(Leeds Art Gallery)
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Nuneaton
Nuneaton Market Place by Patty Townsend 1800
Watercolour
(Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery)
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Darlington
High Row, Darlington, County Durham by John Binney Gibbs 1896
Oil on Canvas
(Darlington Library)
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Knowsley
Knowsley Hall by unknown artist
Oil on Canvas
(Astley Hall Museum and Art Gallery)
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Rayleigh and Wickford
Rayleigh by Neil Fendell
Poster
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Jarrow & Gateshead East
Jarrow Slake, Tyne and Wear by Richard George Hatton (1865–1926)
Oil on Canvas
(Laing Art Gallery)
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Stroud
View of Wallbridge, Stroud, circa 1790, artist unknown
(Museum in the Park, Stroud)
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Harrogate and Knaresborough
Knaresborough Viaduct by Walter Cecil Horsnell (1911–1997)
Exhibited 1949
Oil on Canvas
(The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate)
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South Sheilds
South Shields Market Place by Alfred Ainslie O'Brien 1960s
(Private Collection)
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Cramlington and Killingworth
Eat for England (Spoon) by Bob Budd
Sculpture
(Mill Lane, Seaton Valley, Northumberland)
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Newcastle Central
Newcastle-on-Tyne by Joseph Mallord William Turner c.1823
From the Rivers of England series
Watercolour on Paper
Tate
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Washington & Gateshead
The Angel of the North (after Anthony Gormley) by Alan Reed
Print
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South Swindon
Victoria Road, Swindon, Wiltshire by Roy Bizley 1950s
Oil on Canvas
(Museum & Art Swindon)
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Sunderland's traffic roundabouts are a haven for trees.
Silksworth Lane, (Sainsburys’) roundabout by Robert Soden
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Blyth & Ashington
Blyth, Northumberland by George Balmer 1824
Oil on Canvas
(Northumberland County Council Libraries)
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Blyth & Ashington
The Ashington Group were made up of working men and women from the area and tutored by Robert Lyon.
Fish and Chips by Fred Laidler c.1948
(Museums Northumberland)
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Houghton & Sunderland South Old Sunderland by Thomas Marie Madawaska Hemy 1885
Oil on Canvas
(Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens)
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As we wait for the first result here is another election painting:
Election Day by Norman Rockwell 1944
Watercolour and Gouache
(Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, originally published in the Saturday Evening Post)
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I'm not sure I can do both. I will try.

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The Chairing of Thomas Hawkes (1778–1858) unknown artist (Dudley Museums Service) Thomas Hawkes (1778-1858) was an English industrialist and politician. He was elected as MP for Dudley in 1834, defeating the sitting candidate, Sir John Campbell.

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My Vegetable Love (aka The Greenhouse) by Edward Bawden 1932 Watercolour (Manchester Art Gallery)

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Greenhouse Interior by Charles Mahoney 1939 Oil on Board (Private Collection)

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Thank you so much! What a beautiful church.

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I'm not on X (formerly known as Twitter), so I will post this incredible J.M.W. Turner painting of my hometown of Stamford. Today, the scene looks pretty much the same, but with cars!

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If any of you follow me on X, I shall be posting constituency-based locational landscapes as they are called tonight. Filling timelines with Art and causing Mister Google's time-wasting machine to steam!

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Good Day! Humours of an Election: The Polling by William Hogarth 1754-55 Oil on Canvas (The Sir John Soane's Museum)

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Hyde Park by Claude Monet 1871 Oil on Canvas (Museum of Art, Rhode Island, USA)

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To be clear, I'm looking for the location of New Battle in Denmark, not the painting itself!

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Good Day! Road to New Battle (Denmark) by Peder Mørk Mønsted 1879 Oil on Canvas (Private Collection) I have looked it up and can't find it. Perhaps it was lost in translation. Can any Danish followers help?

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Val d'Aosta (A Stream over Rocks) by John Singer Sargent c. 1909 Oil on Canvas (The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York)

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A Stream Through a Village by Frits Thaulow c.1894-1896 (probably near Dieppe) Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

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