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stenholme was fond of representing a dark and 

 gloomy sky, whereas the younger, father of my 

 informant, seldom painted any but a bright and 

 sunny sky ; again, the senior Wolstenholme was not 

 over particular in bestowing care upon his landscape 

 backgrounds, while the younger man invariably 

 painted these with scrupulous care and always from 

 nature. While dealing with the distinguishing 

 features of the work of the two, it may be added 

 that Dean Wolstenholme, Junior, was extremely 

 fond of painting leafless oaks in his landscape ; 

 the sketch books in the possession of his son 

 contain innumerable sketches of boughs, limbs, and 

 trees taken from nature and destined for use at 

 some future time. Errors in determining the 

 authorship of the later works of the father and the 

 earlier pictures of the son are particularly likely to 

 arise as the professional career of the former over- 

 lapped that of the latter by some eight or nine 

 years, if not more. 



Dean Wolstenholm, Senior, died in 1837 at the 

 age of 80, and was buried in the Old St. Pancras 

 Churchyard. He was a man of remarkable physical 

 strength ; it is said that on one occasion he made 

 a bet that he would carry two sacks of flour up a 

 ladder, and won it. As an artist, if he be not 

 entitled to rank high in the profession, we may at 

 least write him as one who painted, with skill and 

 perfect understanding, scenes with which he was 



