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Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 28 June 1879

He was a Welsh Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Montgomeryshire, and captain in the Montgomery Yeomanry Cavalry.

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2022-09-17

Welsh landscape painter Richard Wilson, was born in 1714 in the village of Penegoes in Montgomeryshire.

He was the first major British painter to concentrate on landscape, painting idealised landscapes based upon places in Italy and classical literature 📚🇮🇹

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2022-08-01

'Wooded Bank, Meifod, Montgomeryshire', John Nash, watercolour and pencil, 1960s.

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2020-12-15

J.M.W. Turner was influenced by a number of artists including the Welsh Arcadian painter, Richard Wilson. When exploring Wales Turner went in search of Wilson’s birth place place at Penegoes in Montgomeryshire. Wilson was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy.

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2019-05-21

Sara Philpott 'Dingle, Montgomeryshire' oil on board 29 x 39 ins

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2018-11-23