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Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham
Thomas Leeson Rowbotham, Victorian blacksmith

1848

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A really charming study of a blacksmith puffing on a clay pipe at the forge door. Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham Junr (1823-1875) Village Blacksmith Patterdale, Aug 1848 Signed, inscribed and dated Watercolour 12¼ x 8½inches unframed 20 x 16 inches with the frame The son of T.L.S. Rowbotham from whom he received lessons, he moved to England while young. In 1847 he toured Wales, and in the later years Scotland, Germany and Normandy. He was elected A.N.W.S. in 1848, and a Member in 1851. He succeeded his father as drawing master at the Royal Naval School, Greenwich. In his earlier years he chiefly painted romantic landscapes and also marine subiects a little in the style of C. Bentley Later he painted Italian Lake views, although he had never been there. He published a number of chromolithographs. His son, C. Rowbotham often painted the figures in his compositions. Source: Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists, H.L.Mallalieu
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