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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to week 7 bonus artist , this weekend it’s Edmund George Warren 1834 - 1909. He is another of the artists  I came across whilst researching for the thread, predominately a landscape artist but like most of artists of his time painted  most things . I particularly like the trees in his landscapes and the boats in the occasional maritime painting. Hope you enjoy his work a much as I have . 

Tessa Gwynne

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Another excellent find Dixie! I like all of those but probably the third most. I shall go look him up.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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If I'd painted that landscape with trees, I could die a happy man. May I suggest Dixie that you also take a look at the work of (Sir) Alfred East?  He wasn't Sir for most of his career, they knighted him just in time, just before the Reaper caught up with him.  
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Tessa I think you will find some excellent paintings  be interesting to see which you pick out.  I would love to be able t paint trees  that , like you Robert I would due a happy man too.  I certainly will add Sir Alfred East to the list , cam I put you down as the person suggesting him , it will be about two or three weeks before his work appear . I do change a bit so that we don’t always have the same kind of artwork every week but it doesn’t always work out. 

Sylvia Evans

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These are rather beautiful Paul again unknown to me.  He seems to have had a bit of a holiday up here in n Wales .  I thought I recognised the harbour scene as being Conwy looked it up and yes it is.   The group of women with one in a red cloak looks like the river Conwy I am sure that is Tryfan in the mountain range behind her to the right ,  good selection.  part of the Snowdon range.  I tried looking that up but could get no info on it. 

Jenny Harris

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Beautiful landscapes, Paul, very idyllic country scenes - and I recognised several of them (from the titles) as places close to me in Surrey, painted when he lived in the London area. These are a couple I really like, especially the snapshot of rural life at the time.

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Tessa Gwynne

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Those two are beautifully painted Jenny. I especially like the second one, and tried to find more with figures without success, so here are a couple I liked. 

Alan Bickley

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Heavily detailed work which was in vogue for that period… undoubtedly a skilful painter, and one I hadn’t come across before! I rather liked this one, a bit different as it’s  not so heavily laden - a very slight hint of Turner lurking somewhere in this one which appeals to me!

Sylvia Evans

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I thought the same Alan a touch of Turnerism...if that's a word.this one you have posted is also reminiscent of Welsh landscape.   He must have been up here on his holidays.   I can see the southern influence I; the broad leafed trees a bi5 like Ashdown Forrest .  

Sylvia Evans

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I thought the same Alan a touch of Turnerism...if that's a word.this one you have posted is also reminiscent of Welsh landscape.   He must have been up here on his holidays.   I can see the southern influence I; the broad leafed trees a bi5 like Ashdown Forrest .  
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Interesting point made above about figures in landscapes - I've never really liked them, and (while far be it from me to compare myself with these artists) I very rarely include any figures in mine.  I think there's a reason why I don't like them in these Victorian paintings - they present too much of a rural idyll, when rural life was anything but idyllic.   I remember visiting the house in which my grandfather was born in1895 - it would be a small house even for two people: there were something in the region of ten people living in it at the time.   Compare Stannard's paintings of children in clean smocks, playing outside rose-bedecked country cottages with actual photographs - for example.  Unfair to pick on Stannard, principally a watercolourist, but I can't but look at some of these very realistic paintings and think that realism is being used to tell a lie.   Or maybe I'm just not very good at painting figures..... 
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Lewis Cooper

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Astonishing work by this artist.  Not previously known to me.  That's unsurprising considering how many wonderful artists there are out there.  I have enjoyed this forum series, admiring the majority of artists selected.  There were a couple that left me cold...another unsurprising thing...you can't like everything.
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