Victorian Fisherman And His Great-Nephew
This was taken from a book on Victorian Photographer, Frank Sutcliffe who used to tour Whitby looking for his "victims". Painted in my favourite sepia colours. Couldn't get the little boy's expression right though - in the book he was smiling and here he is grimacing! Oh dear, think I will leave out faces in future.
About the Artist
Adele Elgood
When I was a young girl my parents had a large mirror which had an etching of a "crinoline lady" on. I would spend hours copying this. In the 1960's when I was at Secondary school, I was told to give up painting and drawing as I was useless and would never be any good. Following these words of…
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