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Children Spinning Tops (painting)

Licence: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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John Glendall is a British painter known for his landscapes of Devon and his love of recording the medieval buildings of Exeter. He was employed as a servant before his work was discovered by an employee of the print seller Rudolf Ackerman, where he became the firm’s manager. He was an illustrator and draughtsman of aquatint engravings as well as a developer of the new art of lithography. In 1861 he was involved in the creation of a museum in Exeter, however he was to die before the museum opened.

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