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VINCENT, GEORGE (1796-1831?)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 91 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VINCENT, See also:GEORGE (1796-1831?) , See also:English landscape and marine painter, was See also:born at See also:Norwich in See also:June 1796. He studied See also:art under " Old " See also:Crome, and at the See also:age of fifteen began to contribute to the Norwich See also:exhibition. From 1814 till 1823 he exhibited occasionally at the Royal See also:Academy, and also in the See also:Water-See also:Colour Exhibition and the See also:British Institution. In 1819 he removed from Norwich to See also:London, and he was a contributor to the See also:Suffolk See also:Street See also:gallery from its See also:foundation in 1824 till 1830. He possessed See also:great See also:artistic abilities; but he See also:fell into dissipation, and his See also:works became slight and hastily executed. Finally he dropped out of sight, and he is believed to have died about 1831. His most important See also:work, a " View of See also:Greenwich See also:Hospital," was shown in the See also:International Exhibition of 1862. His " London from the See also:Surrey See also:Side of See also:Waterloo See also:Bridge " is also a See also:fine work.

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