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Possible because of his vagrant lifestyle, Dempsey primarily depicted beggars, buskers and other itinerant persons in his works, although he took commissions from the wealthy as well, painting the Lord Mayor of London as well as members of the
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primarily, as well as the occasional full canvas. In later life (after 1850) he took up photography.
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historians as they document the rise of the "urban proletariat" in
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Dempsey's people : a folio of
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