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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 14804, member: 25&quot;]For dogged persistence with one subject, see George, Vincent and Oliver Clare who as far as I know never painted anything else apart from still lives of the &#039;Flowers and Fruit on a Mossy Bank&#039; type.</p><p>Factory painters?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.rehs.com/catalogimages/oliver_clare_a3032_still_life_of_fruit.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.rehs.com/clare_family_virtex.htm?page=53" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.rehs.com/clare_family_virtex.htm?page=53" rel="nofollow">http://www.rehs.com/clare_family_virtex.htm?page=53</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>John and Harry Stinton really were factory painters working in the Worcester factories. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://images.arcadja.com/stinton_harry-two_highland_cattle_in_landscape%7EOM23e300%7E10594_20070315_2710234_4053019.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The reason these people became so skilled at their art and so famous was their focus on the subject in hand. </p><p><br /></p><p>Someone unable to resist the temptation to paint &#039;Severed Hand and Empty Bottle on a Mossy Bank&#039; or &#039;Duck Billed Platypus in a Highland landscape&#039;</p><p>might never have attained their eminence,but may well have been a more interesting person.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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