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small (cabinet) size. He was a skilful copyist, and 

 devoted a good deal of his time to making copies 

 of the Dutch masters. He did many of these, 

 and with such nice appreciation of style and 

 character as to deceive even connoisseurs in art. 



He lived a very retired life, and there is nothing 

 extant to show where he dwelt; in 1807 we find 

 him in Winchester Row, Paddington, from which 

 address he sent his first picture to the Royal 

 Academy ; but it is not likely that a painter whose 

 works include so many landscapes passed any con- 

 siderable portion of his time in the metropolis. 

 Between the years 1807 and 1825 inclusive, he 

 was represented at the Royal Academy by thirteen 

 pictures shown at eight exhibitions. His first 

 exhibit was the " Portrait of an Artist " ; on sub- 

 sequent occasions his name occurs in the catalogue 

 as painter of a "View near Amesbury " (1808); 

 "View at Great Durnford, Wiltshire" (1811); 

 while two landscapes, painted respectively near 

 Amesbury and Great Durnford, shown at the 

 exhibition of 181 2, suggest that if he did not for 

 a time at least reside in that locality it had special 

 attractions for him. In 18 16 he was represented 

 at the Royal Academy by a " Sketch from Nature " 

 and a "Landscape with Figures;" while in 181 7 

 he reached his maximum in a single year with 

 three pictures on the Royal Academy walls. In 



