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At this time, he was the centre of a circle of young architects and artists who admired his ability, versatility and conversation. After his return from Italy he spent most of his summers sketching in the country, in 1856 in Normandy, in 1857 in Belgium, and in 1859 at Whitby. On his mother's death
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for a short time. In 1848 he became an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Some of his designs were exhibited in the Royal Academy from 1844. About this time he took up with private theatricals, and played at Miss Kelly's theatre, which he subsequently decorated. In 1850 he went
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His drawings were mainly of architectural subjects, and were distinguished by the purity of their colour, their pearly greys, and the effects of sunlight. Among his brother artists he was called an impressionist. He was a constant exhibitor also at the Royal Academy. During his artistic career he
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with its brutal crowd in the shade, and the blazing sunshine in the arena, suddenly raised his art from the tranquil portraiture of stately buildings and a pearly atmosphere to a higher and more imaginative level, and gained him his membership in the autumn of 1867. Every year he went to France,
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In 1870, he was elected an associate of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, and in the autumn of this year he went to Scotland for his health. At the end of the year, he was attacked with inflammation of the liver, and though he was brought to death's door he contributed drawings of
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had become an artist, his father decided to make him an architect, and articled him on 7 September 1842 for four years to Herbert Williams, a surveyor. On 13 January 1844, he became an architectural student of the
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in September 1859 he inherited a small sum of money, and determined to devote himself to painting, the original desire of his youth. He removed to 17 Maitland Park Terrace,
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designed a studio for Topham, a nest of studios for his son, and the country schools of the Drapers' Company for H. Williams.
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to the Dutch in February 1803. On 1 June 1805 he published a coloured etching of this. He afterwards became a cashier at the
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were fine specimens of the capabilities of water colour. In 1866 he travelled in Spain with
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Germany, or Italy, and made elaborate studies of the subjects he meant to paint.
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Deane died at his house on 18 January 1873 of liver cancer, and was buried at
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Students' book prize for a design at the Royal Institute of British Architects
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with his brother Dennis to Italy, and while at Rome he became a friend of
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with its lines of tents, clouds of dust, and picturesque horsemen; his
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Elected associate of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours
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On quitting Williams in 1846, Deane went as an assistant to
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and devoted all his spare time to water-colour drawing.
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Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects
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cemetery. The same year he was awarded a medal at the
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London
London
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Royal Academy
Liverpool Road
Islington
Barnstaple
Cape of Good Hope
Bank of England
John Jackson
Dennis Wood Deane
Royal Academy
Royal Institute of British Architects
David Mocatta
George Hemming Mason
Great James Street
Bedford Row
Owen Jones
Haverstock Hill

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Francis William Topham
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