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| Not your typical English flower. Biographical details are lacking but he may have traveled to Italy or Spain as many British artists did |
John Dawson Watson was a British painter born in 1832 and died in 1892 of a respiratory infection.
His "business model" was to produce very large numbers of small paintings that he could produce quickly. The large number provided a fairly even stream of income. The downside is that the format does not scale up well; the enlarged images either lack detail or the positions of the human bodies seem "off".
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| At the cottage |
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| Gathering winkles (small, edible sea-snails) |
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Thanks as always ERJ.
ReplyDeleteThat first picture is prickly pear cactus. The red fruiting part is edible but they are grown commercially and deliberately infected with cochineal beetles which, surprise, surprise, are processed to produce cochineal dye. I spent a holiday on Lanzarotte and the fields were full of that type of cactus and cochineal harvesting was a lucrative part of their farming.
ReplyDeletePhil B