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EDWARD JOHN GREGORY (1850-19o9)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 577 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD JOHN GREGORY (1850-19o9)  ,
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British painter, born at Southampton, began
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work at the age of fifteen in the engineer's
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drawing office of the
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Peninsular and
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Oriental
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Company . Afterwards he studied at South
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Kensington, and about 1871 entered on a successful career as an illustrator and as an admirable painter in oil and
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water colour . He was elected associate of the Royal Academy in 1883, academician in 1898, and president of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1898 . His work is distinguished by remarkable technical qualities, by exceptional firmness and decision of draughtsmanship and by unusual certainty of handling . His " Marooned," a water colour, is in the
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National Gallery of British
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Art . Many of his pictures were shown at
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Burlington House at the winter
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exhibition of 1909—1910 after his
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death in
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June 1909 .

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