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    English Painter, 1782-1857 English painter and illustrator. He was apprenticed to the line-engraver Benjamin Smith (d 1833) in 1797, but his greater interest in portrait painting led him to take life classes at the Royal Academy, London; he exhibited portraits there from 1799. Versatile and industrious, he painted miniature likenesses, taught drawing, designed and engraved illustrations for books in French, Portuguese and English, and wrote for and illustrated Rudolph Ackermann's Repository. His half-a-crown watercolours, known as 'pretty faces', were particularly popular, and he found employment as an assiduous copyist. In 1809 he was elected to the Society of Painters in Water-Colours and for the next nine years exhibited careful and colourful images of the countryside that provided views of the year's harvest. In 1817 Uwins travelled to France to record the Burgundian grape harvest, identifying the labour force more obviously as peasants than their English counterparts. In debt, he moved in 1820 to Edinburgh, where he illustrated books by Walter Scott and painted portraits. In 1824, his debt paid, he left for Italy, where he spent seven years; he sent highly valued copies of Italian works back to England (to Thomas Lawrence among others) and made studies of life in and around Rome and Naples, from which his later successes at the Royal Academy derived. An immodest Protestant, Uwins deplored but revelled in the 'polluted streams' of Catholic Italy, and provided London with oils renowned for their clarity and colour. A Neapolitan Saint Manufactory (exh. RA 1832; Leicester, Mus. & A.G.) shows monks haggling, women gazing and children playing amid carved and painted icons.

Thomas Uwins Haymakers at dinner (mk47) oil painting artist
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Haymakers at dinner (mk47)
SPWC 1812 30 Guineas,tu General Ramsey Watercolour 479x702mm Victoria & Albert Museum,London

     Painting ID::  26087
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24x36 60x90 $159
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36x48 90x120 $269
48x72 120x180 $469
  Haymakers_at_dinner_(mk47)
SPWC 1812 30 Guineas,tu General Ramsey Watercolour 479x702mm Victoria & Albert Museum,London

Thomas Uwins A Italian Mother Teaching her child the Tarantella oil painting artist
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A Italian Mother Teaching her child the Tarantella
1842 Oil on wood 43.5 x 55.9 cm (17 1/8 x 22 in) Victoria and Albert Museum,London (mk63)

     Painting ID::  27948
INCHES CM PRICE  
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20x24 50x60 $119
24x36 60x90 $159
30x40 75x100 $199
36x48 90x120 $269
48x72 120x180 $469
  A_Italian_Mother_Teaching_her_child_the_Tarantella
1842 Oil on wood 43.5 x 55.9 cm (17 1/8 x 22 in) Victoria and Albert Museum,London (mk63)

Thomas Uwins A Scottish Peasant Girl Embroidering Muslin at Luss,Loch Lomond oil painting artist
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A Scottish Peasant Girl Embroidering Muslin at Luss,Loch Lomond
1846 watercolour 55.9 x 47.9 cm (22 x 18 7/8 in)Victoria and ALbert Museum London (mk63)

     Painting ID::  28206
INCHES CM PRICE  
16x20 40x50 $99
20x24 50x60 $119
24x36 60x90 $159
30x40 75x100 $199
36x48 90x120 $269
48x72 120x180 $469
  A_Scottish_Peasant_Girl_Embroidering_Muslin_at_Luss,Loch_Lomond
1846 watercolour 55.9 x 47.9 cm (22 x 18 7/8 in)Victoria and ALbert Museum London (mk63)

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    English Painter, 1782-1857 English painter and illustrator. He was apprenticed to the line-engraver Benjamin Smith (d 1833) in 1797, but his greater interest in portrait painting led him to take life classes at the Royal Academy, London; he exhibited portraits there from 1799. Versatile and industrious, he painted miniature likenesses, taught drawing, designed and engraved illustrations for books in French, Portuguese and English, and wrote for and illustrated Rudolph Ackermann's Repository. His half-a-crown watercolours, known as 'pretty faces', were particularly popular, and he found employment as an assiduous copyist. In 1809 he was elected to the Society of Painters in Water-Colours and for the next nine years exhibited careful and colourful images of the countryside that provided views of the year's harvest. In 1817 Uwins travelled to France to record the Burgundian grape harvest, identifying the labour force more obviously as peasants than their English counterparts. In debt, he moved in 1820 to Edinburgh, where he illustrated books by Walter Scott and painted portraits. In 1824, his debt paid, he left for Italy, where he spent seven years; he sent highly valued copies of Italian works back to England (to Thomas Lawrence among others) and made studies of life in and around Rome and Naples, from which his later successes at the Royal Academy derived. An immodest Protestant, Uwins deplored but revelled in the 'polluted streams' of Catholic Italy, and provided London with oils renowned for their clarity and colour. A Neapolitan Saint Manufactory (exh. RA 1832; Leicester, Mus. & A.G.) shows monks haggling, women gazing and children playing amid carved and painted icons.

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