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Taylor was a ground-breaking toxicologist and pioneer of photography, as well as a talented artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this precisely rendered view Taylor demonstrates the keen observation of a scientific mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51996069855561,"sku":"JM-748","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/jm-748.jpg?v=1743174176"},{"product_id":"haweswater-reservoir-lake-district-original-mid-19th-century-watercolour-painting-jt-738","title":"Haweswater Reservoir, Lake District – mid-19th-century watercolour painting","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original mid-19th-century watercolour painting Haweswater Reservoir, Lake District.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn attractive composition in sepia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn watercolour with white bodycolour highlights.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52017265606985,"sku":"JT-738","price":38.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/jt-738.jpg?v=1743497739"},{"product_id":"ullswater-from-patterdale-lake-district-original-mid-19th-century-watercolour-painting-jt-743","title":"Ullswater from Patterdale, Lake District – mid-19th-century watercolour painting","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original mid-19th-century watercolour painting Ullswater from Patterdale, Lake District.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn attractive Lake District view in grisaille with a yellow background wash.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52017265869129,"sku":"JT-743","price":78.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/jt-743.jpg?v=1743497741"},{"product_id":"vernon-wethered-neac-corner-of-crummock-waterlake-district-c1920s-watercolour-jw-668","title":"Vernon Wethered NEAC, Corner of Crummock Water,Lake District –c1920s watercolour","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original c.1920s watercolour painting, Vernon Wethered NEAC, Corner of Crummock Water, Lake District.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wonderfully atmospheric landscape view, with impressionistic handling of paint and treatment of light. By English Impressionist Vernon Wethered NEAC (1865–1952).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn watercolour with graphite underdrawing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52017880269129,"sku":"JW-668","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/jw-668.jpg?v=1743502863"},{"product_id":"coniston-water-lake-district-original-c-1870-albumen-print-photograph-kb-173","title":"Coniston Water, Lake District – Original c.1870 albumen print photograph","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original c.1870 photograph Coniston Water, Lake District.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA striking late 19th-century albumen print.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaid down on backing card, with inscription below. There are two additional albumen prints pasted on the verso of the card, showing a view of Kirkstone Pass.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is one of a collection of topographical photographs that we have for sale, which appear to have been collected on a European tour of Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany and Austria. The photographs capture iconic cultural sites at Rome and Florence, as they were before mass tourism of the 20th century, spectacular Alpine vistas, and also scenes frozen in time, such as military and bomb damage after the Siege of Strasbourg during the Franco-Prussian War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are also photos in England, recording architecture at Oxford, Chester and Warwick, and capturing Lake District beauty spots popularised by the Romantic poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photos largely appear to be by professional photographers or studios of the day, with notable similarities to the photographers James Anderson (1813–1877) and Robert Macpherson (1814–1872) who settled in Rome, French photographer Auguste Colas-Baudelaire (1830–1880), and Francis Frith (1822–1898), who extensively photographed England, including the Lake District, in the late 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52021400011081,"sku":"KB-173","price":58.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/kb-173.jpg?v=1743520358"},{"product_id":"rosa-e-neumann-nr-the-lead-mines-derwentwater-lake-district-1888-watercolour-kc-107","title":"Rosa E. 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The University of Melbourne holds an untitled Claudian landscape by William Glover, but as art historian and curator Henry Skerritt writes, 'the locations of William Glover’s paintings remain largely unknown; the large oil painting in the University of Melbourne Art Collection is one of only two works in Australian public collections, the other being a small watercolour in the National Library of Australia'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam was born in Leicestershire in 1791, less than a year after John’s illegitimate first son John Richardson Glover. Evidently accomplished from a young age, he is recorded as a drawing master in Birmingham from 1808, then in 1827, he purchased eighty acres of land in Van Diemen’s Land, and in 1829 he sailed to Tasmania with his younger brothers Henry and James. In 1831 John Glover Senior, already a successful artist of the picturesque in Britain, emigrated to Australia, where his naturalistic and atmospheric paintings of Australian nature, settler life and Aboriginal culture would secure him a legacy as the 'father of Australian landscape painting'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Glover Senior was heavily influenced by the classical tradition, so much so that he was known in England and France as the 'English Claude'. The present painting by William Glover also embodies this Claudian influence; titled on the verso 'Lake Scene, North of England', it appears to be an imagined landscape rather than topographically accurate—its pictorial elements artfully composed and its mountain and castle possessing a grandeur that looks more Continental than British.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrior to the move to Australia, William exhibited alongside his father in exhibitions at Old Bond Street in 1824 and 1825, where his subjects included generically titled 'Landscape–Morning', Landscape–Evening' and 'Landscape–Storm', as well as specific views at Pomeroy Castle, Devonshire, Milnthorpe in Lancashire, Tintern Abbey and Ullswater—the Lake District being a favourite subject of William like his father. Additionally, there is a picturesque watercolour of Barnard Castle by William Glover in the collection of the V\u0026amp;A (no. 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William had little luck in farming, and filed for bankruptcy in 1842, before moving to Melbourne where he lived out his days as a coachman, dying in 1870.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52948570472777,"sku":"KC-663","price":410.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/kc-663.jpg?v=1757941782"},{"product_id":"keswick-sketching-club-red-sandstone-church-possibly-cumbria-original-1870s-watercolour-painting-kc-713","title":"Keswick Sketching Club, Red Sandstone Church, Possibly Cumbria – 1870s watercolour painting","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original 1870s watercolour painting – Keswick Sketching Club, Red Sandstone Church, Possibly Cumbria.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis charming watercolour was painted in the 1870s as part of the Keswick Sketching Club, an amateur art group in the Lake District supported by John William Oddie (1839–1923) and John Ruskin (1819–1900).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is one of a collection of watercolours relating to the Club that we have for sale. The paintings are by at least two different hands, including 'Maggie' and 'S. Mattocks'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs such, this painting represents the amateur artistic activity that was burgeoning in the Lake District towards the end of the 19th century. 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