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Date: 1913
Dimensions: 25.5 x 35
Object Type: watercolour
Material: watercolour and gouache on paper
Catalogue number: BrW33
Artist: Goodwin, Albert, 1845, 1932
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1935

Goodwin was born in Maidstone in Kent, the son of a builder and one of 9 children. After leaving school he became an apprentice draper. His exceptional artistic ability was recognised at an early age and he went on to study with the Pre-Raphaelite artists Arthur Hughes and Ford Madox Brown – the latter predicting that he would become “one of the greatest landscape painters of the age”.

At the age of 15 his first painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy. He became an associate member of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) in 1876. He was championed by famed art critic John Ruskin who took him on a tour of Europe, where he made many sketches from nature which were later turned into watercolours. During his lifetime he traveled extensively throughout Britain, Europe and South America. This watercolour depicts a carnival at night in Venezuela where he traveled in 1913.

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Date: 1899
Dimensions: 25 x 37
Object Type: watercolour
Material: pencil and watercolour on paper
Catalogue number: BrW30
Artist: Fletcher, Hanslip, 1875, 1955
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1936

This is one of a series of sketches of Kelmscott Manor by the artist Hanslip Fletcher, during a visit to Kelmscott on 7th August 1899. Morris had died three years earlier in 1896, and the house was occupied by Jane Morris, who later bought it in 1913. The watercolour shows William Morris’s bedroom, with its four poster bed hung with embroideries executed by Jane and May Morris.

Fletcher was an etcher, illustrator and painter specialising in architectural studies of London and elsewhere. He was born and lived in London and was a member of the Art Workers’ Guild.

Object Type: watercolour

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