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when he executed the plates for Rogers' Poems 

 from the drawinsfs of Thomas Stothard, R.A. 

 These are the most esteemed pieces of work accom- 

 pHshed by Clennell as an engraver, 



After this he practically renounced engraving for 

 painting in oil and water-colours, and attained in 

 this field the success his abilities entitled him to 

 expect. We learn from the History of the Old 

 Water Colour Society that in 1810, 181 1, and 181 2, 

 Clennell was a member of the Associated Artists ; 

 these were the last years of the existence of that 

 body. On 8th June, 181 2, he was elected an 

 Associate of the Water-Colour Society, and in the 

 same year he exhibited for the first time at the 

 Royal Academy. His maiden picture at this exhi- 

 bition was entitled " Fox-hunters Regaling after the 

 Chase " (which was twice engraved), and the cata- 

 logue gives his address as 9, Constitution Row, 

 Gray's Inn Road. He was apparently of somewhat 

 restless disposition, for in 18 13 he had changed his 

 residence to 34, Tonbridge Place, New Road, 

 London; and in 1815 and 1816, the last years of 

 his working life, his address in the Royal Academy 

 catalogues is given as -^i, Penton Place, Penton- 

 ville. The exhibitions of the Old Water-Colour 

 Society received altogether eighteen of his pictures, 

 while fifteen were exhibited in the galleries of the 

 British Institution, and thirty-one were shown at 

 various other galleries. 



