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when he was still an infant and always regarded the latter as his native town. His parents were poor, and he began life in a
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in 1878 brought him wider fame. This exhibition showed him to be a genuine
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Henry Dawson, though painting much, and selling his pictures for high prices in his later life, remained, strange to say, very little known except to artists and connoisseurs until the large and very interesting collection of his works that was made for the
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received in 1838, Henry Dawson was entirely a self-taught artist, and his art shows much originality and careful realism. He studied nature for himself, but he seems in later life to have been moved by
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