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See also:GEORGE See also:CATTERMOLE (1800-1868)
, See also:English painter, chiefly in See also:water-See also:colours, was See also:born at Dickleburgh, near See also:Diss, See also:Norfolk, in See also:August 1800
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At the See also:age of sixteen he began working as an architectural and topographical draughtsman; afterwards he contributed designs to be engraved in the annuals then so popular; thence he progressed into water-See also:colour See also:painting, becoming an See also:associate of the Water-Colour Society in 1822, and a full member in 1833
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In 185o he withdrew from active connexion with this society, and took to painting in oil
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His most fertile See also:period was between 1833 and 185o
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At the See also:Paris See also:exhibition of 1855 he received one of the five first-class See also:gold medals awarded to See also:British painters
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He also enjoyed professional honours in See also:Amsterdam and in See also:Belgium
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He died on the 24th of See also:July 1868
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Among his leading See also:works are " The See also:Murder of the See also:Bishop of See also:Liege " (15th See also:century), " The Armourer See also:relating the See also:Story of the See also:Sword," " The Assassination of the See also:Regent See also: |
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