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GEORGE MANSON (1850-1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 601 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:MANSON (1850-1876)  , Scottish See also:water-See also:colour painter, was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh on the 3rd of See also:December 1850, When about fifteen he was apprenticed as a woodcutter with W . & R . See also:Chambers, with whom he remained for over five years; diligently employing all his spare See also:time in the study and practice of See also:art, and producing in his See also:morning and evening See also:hours water-See also:colours of much delicacy and beauty . In 1871 he devoted himself exclusively to See also:painting . His subjects were derived from humble Scottish See also:life—especially See also:child-life, varied occasionally by See also:portraiture, by landscape, and by views of picturesque See also:architecture . In 1873 he visited See also:Normandy, See also:Belgium and See also:Holland; in the following See also:year he spent several months in See also:Sark; and in 1875 he resided at St Lo, and in See also:Paris, where he mastered the processes of See also:etching . Meanwhile in his water-colour See also:work he had been adding more of breadth and See also:power to the tenderness and richness of colour which distinguished his See also:early pictures, and he was planning more complex and important subjects . But his See also:health-had been gradually failing, and he was ordered to Lympstone in See also:Devonshire, where he died on the 27th of See also:February 1876 . 6oi See also:code . He defined almost every principle that governed commercial transactions in such a manner that his successors had only to apply the rules he had laid down . His knowledge of See also:Roman and See also:foreign See also:law, and the See also:general width of his See also:education, freed him from the danger of relying too exclusively upon narrow precedents, and afforded him a storehouse of principles and illustrations, while the grasp and acuteness of his See also:intellect enabled him to put his judgments in a See also:form which almost always commanded assent . A similar See also:influence was exerted by him in other branches of the See also:common law; and although, after his retirement, a reaction took See also:place, and he was regarded for a while as one who had corrupted the See also:ancient principles of See also:English law, these prejudices passed rapidly away, and the value of his work in bringing the older law into See also:harmony with the needs of See also:modern society has See also:long been fully recognized .

See Holliday's Life (1797); See also:

Campbell's See also:Chief Justices; See also:Foss's See also:Judges; Greville's See also:Memoirs, passim; See also:Horace See also:Walpole's Letters; and other memoirs and See also:works on the See also:period .

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