Lot Essay
Few details are known about Becker's life, but he was probably a pupil of Richard Cooper, Jun. He seems to have worked in Rome in the 1780s and in the Lake District and on the Thames by the end of the 1790s
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Edmund Becker (fl. 1770-1800)
An extensive View of a Town above a River
indistinctly inscribed and dated '79'; pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash, watermark
9 x 13in. (228 x 330mm.)
An extensive View of a Town above a River
indistinctly inscribed and dated '79'; pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash, watermark
9 x 13in. (228 x 330mm.)