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scene. Based on keen observation of the colour of nature and on careful studies of the details, they are arranged with a rare and by no means obvious sense of See also:

BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. bilantia, an apparatus for weighing, from bi, two, and lanx, a dish or scale)

balance and compositional beauty which summarily discards all disturbing accidents of nature. He also achieved distinction as an etcher, and published an instructive and useful See also:

VOLUME

volume on landscape See also:

PAINTING

painting (See also:

LONDON

London, 1906). He began to exhibit at the Royal See also:

Academy in 1882, and was elected an See also:

ASSOCIATE (Lat. associates, from ad, to, and sociare to join)

associate. In 1906 he became See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the Royal Society of See also:

BRITISH

British Artists. Many of his See also:

WORKS

works are to be found in the English provincial galleries; See also:

Manchester owns "The Silent See also:

SOMME

Somme " and "Autumn "; See also:

Liverpool, " See also:

GIBRALTAR

Gibraltar from See also:

ALGECIRAS, or ALGEZIRAS

Algeciras "; See also:

Leeds, " The See also:

GOLDEN

Golden Valley"; See also:

BIRMINGHAM

Birmingham, "Hayle from Lelant "; See also:

Preston, "An Idyll of See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

Spring "; and See also:

Hull, " Evening on the Cotswolds." His " Passing See also:

Storm " is at the Luxembourg; " The Nene Valley " at the See also:

Venice See also:

GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

gallery; and " A Haunt of See also:

Ancient See also:

Peace " at the See also:

NATIONAL

National gallery in See also:

BUDAPEST

Budapest. In 1903 he received the See also:

order of the See also:

CROWN

Crown of See also:

Italy in connexion with his services to the Venice See also:

INTERNATIONAL, THE

international See also:

EXHIBITION

exhibition; and he was made an honorary member of the See also:

JAPANESE

Japanese Meiji Bijutsu Kai.

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