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Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen on: CNN, NBC, Sky TV, The Times etc

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John Duncan Fergusson's drawing of
'Margaret Morris in a hammock at la Petite Farandole, Antibes,' (1914) is a typically beautiful piece of draughtsmanship done out of instinct and overriding interest in form, character and the joy of life.

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Painted in the mid-1950s, John Nash's dramatic composition relies on the juxtaposition of cliffs and zigzag sea defences for its primary impact. There are several of these structures on the North Norfolk coast including Happisburgh, Hunstanton and Caister.

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'After Gainsborough.' (1979) The visionary approach to landscape adopted by 18th century Romantic artists, such as Thomas Gainsborough had a profound influence on John Piper. Like many artists before him, he exercised his admiration by making copies of their work.

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Norman Bowler first met John Minton in the summer of 1952 and frequently accompanied him on his social rounds in London and they also made several trips abroad. Bowler posed for many drawings as well as two major oil paintings.

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Like Auerbach and Kossoff, Joan Eardley made expressive, luminous figurative paintings. She worked exclusively from life on a few motifs she cared passionately about and dug deep into her subjects to bring a whole world into existence through paint, that transforming substance.

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This pastel 'La Coiffure,' (c1892) is a study for the oil painting of the same title, once owned by Henri Matisse. The subject of the coiffure, where a solitary woman combs her hair or has it brushed by a maid inspired some of the finest pictorial inventions of Degas's last years

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'Moonlit Landscape.' (1835) Johan Christian Dahl was one of the leading painters of the German Romantic era and was Norway’s answer to Turner. Created decades before Edvard Munch came along, this picture established the deep north as a new territory for art.

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'And Did Those Feet...' (1978)  Harold Hitchcock's work falls recognisably into the English romantic tradition of William Blake and Samuel Palmer and in some of his pastorals, Palmer's manner appears almost untouched.

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In his watercolour 'The Laundress,' (1883-84) van Gogh depicts a woman bending to her do her work in early winter. It is an image he repeated in his later paintings where he explored themes inspired by Millet, often using earlier drawings and watercolours as source material.

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After a nearby bomb blast damaged his London studio in 1941 Henry Moore moved to Hertfordshire. He used his petrol allowance as an official war artist, driving weekly to London; a special permit enabled him to stay in any tube station, later drawing the sleepers from memory.

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