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David Woodlock was born in County Tipperary in southern Ireland. He spent much of his life working in Liverpool where he was a member of the Liverpool Academy of Arts. He exhibited sixteen works at the Royal Academy between 1888 and 1904 and, besides working in Venice, found much of his subject matter in depicting rural Warwickshire. He lived for a time in Leamington, and recorded life in that county with the same fidelity that Helen Allingham and Myles Birket Foster applied to views of Surrey. His watercolours form a sharp contrast to their work however, as he developed a singular technique of painting in watercolour on wet paper, with the result that his colours bled to great effect. Christie's London sold An old Cottage at Tatchbrook, near Warwick for £18,400 on 14 March 1997, (lot 34), an auction record price for the artist.