Lot 1422
1422
William Widgery (BRITISH, 1822-1893), after Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
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William Widgery (BRITISH, 1822-1893), after Sir Edwin Henry Landseer

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William Widgery (BRITISH, 1822-1893), after Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
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signed and inscribed 'W. Widgery/87 South St./Ex[eter?] 58' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
30 x 25½ in. (76.2 x 64.8 cm.)
After the picture in Tate Britain, London.
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Lot Essay

Trained as a stone-mason, William Widgery was an self-taught landscape and animal painter from Exeter. After making a substantial amount of money producing imitations of Landseers The monarch of the Glen, he took up art as a profession, painting around Devon and Cornwall, and developing a reputation 'of great local repute'.

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