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Excerpt from Exhibition Early English, Dutch and Flemish Paintings: At the Blakeslee Galleries President Royal Academy from 1830 to 1845. A por trait painter of distinction. Born in Ireland, 1769. He had many royal sitters, including the Duke of Clarence, Wil liam IV., and Queen Adelaide, as well as Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, and he painted a number of theatrical portraits, among them Lewis, Stephen Kemble, Pope, and F awcett. Occasionally he evolved classical compositions, but his reputation rests mainly on his portrait work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.